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Gallery of Horror

Some galleries specialize in the arts of painting or sculpture. But the gallery you are about to visit specializes in the most irresistibly riveting art of all—the art of horror, as practiced to perfection by the greatest modern masters of that ghoulish trade. With twenty gripping, hair-raising selections, Gallery of Horroris one of the very best anthologies ever assembled. But beware—these are writers for whom no leap into the unknown evil is too bold or frightening. Are you ready for it?

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Contents

Aim for the Heart * (1983) * shortstory by Craig Shaw Gardner

Canavan's Back Yard * [Canavan] * (1958) * shortstory by Joseph Payne Brennan

Death to the Easter Bunny! * (1983) * shortstory by Alan Ryan

Derelicts * (1983) * shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem

Down Among the Dead Men * (1982) * novelette by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann

Gravid Babies: A Novel of Horrific Menace in Considerable Synopsis * (1983) * shortstory by Michael Bishop

In Darkness, Angels * (1983) * novelette by Eric Van Lustbader

Introduction (Gallery of Horror) * (1983) * essay by Charles L. Grant (aka Introduction (The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror))

Nona * (1978) * novelette by Stephen King

Nunc Dimittis * (1983) * novelette by Tanith Lee

Out of Sorts * (1983) * shortstory by Bernard Taylor

Petey * (1979) * novella by T. E. D. Klein

Something Nasty * (1983) * shortstory by William F. Nolan

Talent * (1953) * shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon

The Arrows * (1983) * shortstory by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

The Chair * (1983) * novelette by Dennis Etchison

The Conqueror Worm * (1983) * shortstory by Stephen R. Donaldson

The Crazy Chinaman * (1983) * shortstory by John Coyne

The Rubber Room * (1980) * shortstory by Robert Bloch

The Sunshine Club * (1983) * shortstory by Ramsey Campbell

The Typewriter * (1983) * novelette by David Morrell

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 332 pages

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