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• 9 • Introduction: Access to Horror • essay by Karl Edward Wagner
• 13 • The Dead Line • (1979) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 26 • To Wake the Dead • (1979) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 38 • In the Fourth Year of the War • (1979) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 49 • From the Lower Deep • (1979) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 62 • The Baby-Sitter • (1978) • short story by Davis Grubb
• 79 • The Well at the Half Cat • (1979) • short story by John C. Tibbetts [as by John Tibbetts]
• 102 • My Beautiful Darkling • short story by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of Mijn mooie duisterlinge 1979)
• 120 • A Serious Call • (1979) • short story by George Hay
• 128 • Sheets • (1979) • short story by Alan Ryan
• 139 • Billy Wolfe's Riding Spirit • (1979) • short story by Kevin A. Lyons
• 145 • Lex Talionis • (1979) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 168 • Entombed • (1979) • short story by Robert Keefe
• 181 • A Fly One • (1979) • short story by Steve Sneyd
• 189 • Needle Song • (1979) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 201 • All the Birds Come Home to Roost • (1979) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 214 • The Devil Behind You • (1979) • short story by Richard A. Moore