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Borderlandsis a horror anthology series not concerned with traditional elements of horror fiction. Borderlandsis about breaking the mold and pushing the genre and its finest writers to the edge. Hailed as the anthology series of the 90s, Borderlandswill remind you that horror can indeed be horrific. Read about a farmer who disdains his wife for a giant potato...women's clothing made from fetal tissue..an executive who slowly slips into the reality he sells...and more.

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CONTENTS

'Introduction' — Thomas F. Monteleone

"The Calling" — David B. Silva

"Scartaris, June 28th" — Harlan Ellison

"Glass Eyes" — Nancy Holder

"The Grass of Remembrance" — John DeChancie

"On the Nightmare Express" — Francis J. Malozzo

"The Pounding Room" — Bentley Little

"Peeling It Off" — Darrell Schweitzer

"The Raw and the Cooked" — Michael Green

"His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood" — Poppy Z. Brite

"Oh What a Swell Guy Am I" — Jeffrey Osier

"Delia and the Dinner Party" — John Shirley

"Suicide Note" — Lee Moler

"Stillborn" — Nina Kiriki Hoffman

"Ladder" — T.E.D. Klein

"Muscae Volitantes" — Chet Williamson

"The Man in the Long Black Sedan" — Ed Gorman

"His Frozen Heart" — Jack Hunter Daves Jr.

"Evelyn Grace" — Thomas Tessier

"By The Light of the Silvery Moon" — Les Daniels

"A Younger Woman" — John Maclay

"But You'll Never Follow Me" — Karl Edward Wagner

"Stephen" — Elizabeth Massie

"Alexandra" — Charles L. Grant

"The Good Book" — G. Wayne Miller

"By Bizarre Hands" — Joe R. Lansdale

Audience
adult
Length
long · 480 pages

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