Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Introduction (Fields of Blood: Vampire Stories of the Heartland) • (1998) • essay by Lawrence Schimel
• 3 • Undercover • (1995) • short story by Nancy Holder
• 15 • The Time of the Bleeding Pumpkins • (1998) • short story by A. R. Morlan
• 35 • Masquerade • (1942) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• 51 • There Will Always Be Meat • (1998) • short story by Jennifer Stevenson
• 63 • Plague • (1995) • short story by John Lutz
• 73 • Too Short a Death • [Koko Tate] • (1995) • novelette by Peter Crowther
• 99 • Purr of a Cat • (1942) • short story by Hugh B. Cave [as by Justin Case]
• 115 • Death on the Mississippi • (1995) • short story by Terry Beatty and Wendi Lee
• 135 • A 12-Step Program (for the Corporeally Challenged) • (1995) • short story by Tina L. Jens
• 145 • A Night at the (Horse) Opera • [Vampire Files (P. N. Elrod)] • (1995) • short story by P. N. Elrod
• 159 • Harvest Moon • (1998) • short story by Mark Garland [as by Mark A. Garland]
• 173 • The Tenacity of the Dead • (1998) • novelette by John Helfers
• 197 • The Drifting Snow • (1939) • short story by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon]