A collection of the year's horror stories by some well-known masters of dark fantasy such as Pat Cadigan, Stephen Laws, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Marshall-Smith, Douglas E. Winter, Kim Newman and Thomas Ligotti.

Contents:

Dying words / David J. Schow --
The windmill / Conrad Williams --
The right ending / John Burke --
Swallowing a dirty seed / Simon Clark --
This is your life (repressed memory remix) / Pat Cadigan --
Christmas forever / Christopher Fowler --
Four famines age / Yvonne Navarro --
The crawl / Stephen Laws --
Serpent eggs / David Langford --
No one you know / Dennis Etchison --
The dripping of sundered wineskins / Brian Hodge --
The bells will sound forever / Thomas Ligotti --
The Word / Ramsey Campbell --
The map to the homes of the stars / Andy Duncan --
Emptiness spoke eloquent / Caitlin R. Kiernan --
Save as... / Michael Marshall Smith --
Coppola's Dracula / Kim Newman --
Grazing the long acre / Gwyneth Jones --
The zombies of Madison County / Douglas E. Winter --
Necrology : 1997 / Stephen Jones & Kim Newman.