β Scribed by Karl Edward Wagner (Ed.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Open the coffin lid if you dareβand loose all the haunting specters in this 20th volume of the year's most frightening tales of terror....
From a Toronto bar to a little-known Greek isle to a war-torn Vietnamese village to a very private church in the heart of Ohio, this around-the-world trek through the many landscapes of horror is a truly terrifying festival of the macabre. Karl Edward Wagner has once again recruited the best of the bestβfrom such familiar masters of malice as Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, and Brian Lumley to today's brightest new talentsβto craft a fitting twentieth anniversary edition for a series which, year after year, has provided readers with that unforgettable chill of fear, that adrenaline rush of terror, and that wondrous feeling of relief at escaping safely back to the security of everyday existence.
See what happens to a man who discovers that too much knowledge really can be a dangerous thing....Discover the perils of falling under the spell of one's own music....Walk an otherworldly beat with a cop who may find herself converted by the disciples of an all-consuming god....Take a family vacation on an island where your hosts insist on making your stay a permanent one....
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