For the reader who hasn't the patience to search through several shelves of books and magazines for enough good horror stories to furnish a year's worth of nightmares—don't despair, those untroubled nights are over. Collected here are the best horror stories to be published in 1979. Here you will find both traditional and non-traditional horrors, terrors from the supernatural and from the inner mind. Some of these stories are from the most noted authors of the fantasy genre, others represent only an author's first or second published story.

All of these stories do have one point in common, however, and that is their power to create a convincing mood of fear and unease. In selecting these stories this series' new editor, the well-known writer of fantastic adventure, Karl Edward Wagner, followed no restrictive definitions, guidelines or taboos. The goal was to gather together the best...

WELCOME TO THEIR NIGHTMARES...

Contents:
Introduction: Access to Horror by Karl Edward Wagner.
The Dead Line by Dennis Etchison.
To Wake the Dead by Ramsey Campbell.
In the Fourth Year of the War by Harlan Ellison.
From the Lower Deep by Hugh B. Cave.
The Baby-Sitter by Davis Grubb.
The Well at the Half Cat by John C. Tibbetts.
My Beautiful Darkling by Eddy C. Bertin.
A Serious Call by George Hay.
Sheets by Alan Ryan.
Billy Wolfe's Riding Spirit by Kevin A. Lyons.
Lex Talionis by Russell Kirk.
Entombed by Robert Keefe.
A Fly One by Steve Sneyd.
Needle Song by Charles L. Grant.
All the Birds Come Home to Roost by Harlan Ellison.
The Devil Behind You by Richard A. Moore.