Contains: Popsy / Stephen King -- Second sight / Ramsey Campbell -- The yard / William F. Nolan -- The new season / Robert Bloch -- The near departed / Richard Matheson -- Ice sculptures / David B. Silva -- Wiping the slate clean / G. Wayne Miller -- The litter / James Kisner -- Splatter / Douglas E. Winter -- Deathbed / Richard Christian Matheson -- American Gothic / Ray Russell -- Moist dreams / Stanley Wiater -- Dog, cat, and baby / Joe R. Lansdale. Nothing from nothing comes / Katherine Ramsland -- If you take my hand, my son / Mort Castle -- Maurice and Mog / James Herbert -- Fish story / Dennis Hamilton -- Outsteppin' Fetchit / Charles R. Saunders -- In the tank / Ardath Mayhar -- Hidey hole / Steve Rasnic Tem -- The night is freezing fast / Thomas F. Monteleone -- Buried talents / Richard Matheson -- Lake George in high August / John Robert Bensink -- Wordsong / J. N. Williamson -- The man who drowned puppies / Thomas Sullivan -- The boy who came back from the dead / Alan Rodgers.