You are now holding Series XII, nineteen stories representing the cream of the crop of 1983’s harvest of horrors. This collection is the result of a year’s work, of reading through hundreds of stories published in books and magazines of all descriptions from the United States and Europe in order to select the best of the best. Many of the top authors in the horror genre are represented here, but alongside them you will find exceptional work from new and unfamiliar writers ...Virtually all types of horror fiction are represented here: traditional, New Wave, historical, contemporary, psychological, science fiction, mainstream. The only criterion for selection was excellence. The Year’s Best Horror Stories is intended for the novice horror fan as well as the jaded sophisticate, and Series XII is the latest collection of the very best for those readers who expect the very best.
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Uncle Otto’s Truck by Stephen King
3.47 AM by David Langford
Mistral by Jon Wynne-Tyson
Out of Africa by David Drake
The Wall-Painting by Roger Johnson
Keepsake by Vincent McHardy
Echoes by Lawrence C. Connolly
After-Images by Malcolm Edwards
The Ventriloquist’s Daughter by Juleen Brantingham
Come to the Party by Frances Garfield
The Chair by Dennis Etchison
Names by Jane Yolen
The Attic by Billy Wolfenbarger
Just Waiting by Ramsey Campbell
One for the Horrors by David J. Schow
Elle Est Trois. (La Mort) by Tanith Lee
Spring-Fingered Jack by Susan Casper
The Flash! Kid by Scott Bradfield
The Man with Legs by Al Sarrantonio