The complete Masters of darkness
By: edited by Dennis Etchison.
Contributors: Etchison, Dennis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Underwood-Miller
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Novato, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 766
Subjects: Horror tales, American; Horror tales, English
Other titles: Masters of darkness.; Masters of darkness II.; Masters of darkness III.
Notes: A combined edition of Masters of darkness, Masters of darkness II, and Masters of darkness III.
Masters of darkness and Masters of darkness II were previously published by Tor Books in 1986 and 1988.
Masters of darkness II: Up under the roof / Manley Wade Wellman -- The other room / Lisa Tuttle -- A garden of blackred roses / Charles L. Grant -- Cottage tenant / Frank Belknap Long -- The hounds / Kate Wilhelm -- Zombique / Joseph Payne Brennan -- Taking the night train / Thomas F. Monteleone -- Black corridor / Fritz Leiber -- Strangers on paradise / Damon Knight -- Gemini / Tanith Lee -- Glimmer, glimmer / George Alec Effinger -- Perverts / Whitley Strieber -- On ice / Barry N. Malzberg -- The monkey treatment / George R.R. Martin -- Casey Agonistes / Richard McKenna.
Masters of darkness III: The secret / Jack Vance -- The patter of tiny feet / Nigel Kneale -- The tenant / Avram Davidson -- Hallowe'en's child / James Herbert -- After the funeral / Hugh B. Cave -- But at my back I always hear / David Morrell -- The whisperer / Brian Lumley -- Doppelgänger / R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- The master of the hounds / Algis Budrys -- Judgment day / L. Sprague de Camp -- In the hills, the cities / Clive Barker -- Jamboree / Jack Williamson -- Family / Joyce Carol Oates -- Twilight of the dawn / Dean R. Koontz -- The woman in the room / Stephen King.
Table of contents: title: Masters of darkness: The dead man / Ray Bradbury; title: Flash point / Gardner Dozois; title: The animal fair / Robert Bloch; title: The end of the carnival / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; title: Dance of the dead / Richard Matheson; title: The words that count / Ramsey Campbell; title: The test tube/Doctor of dreams (2 poems) / Ray Russell; title: Neither brute nor human / Karl Edward Wagner; title: Sea change (a treatment) / George Clayton Johnson; title: Teeth marks / Edward Bryant; title: Third wind / Richard Christian Matheson; title: Preparations for the game / Steve Rasnic Tem; title: Armaja Das / Joe Haldeman; title: Saturday's shadow / William F. Nolan; title: Camps / Jack Dann.