Also from Rainfall, Terror Tales Issue #3 edited by John B. Ford and Paul Kane collected sixteen stories (seven original) from Stephen Laws, Richard Christian Matheson, Simon Clark, Peter Straub, Chaz Brenchley, Joel Lane, Conrad Williams, Mark Samuels, Allen Ashley and others.
Jon Farmer’s iconoclastic study of history and popular culture from Savoy, Sieg Heiclass="underline" Monographers, was packed with photographs and artwork.
“Hosted” by Ramsey Campbell, Read by Dawn Volume 1 was the first in an annual new anthology series published by Adèle Hartley’s Bloody Books imprint from Beautiful Books. Along with a reprint by Campbell, it contained twenty-six original stories by David McGillveray, Lavie Tidhar, Andrew J. Wilson, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, David Turnbull, John Llewellyn Probert and others. From the same imprint, Classic Tales of Horror Volume 1 contained stories by M. R. James, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Shelley and Charles Dickens.
Ramsey Campbell’s classic 1979 serial killer novel The Face That Must Die was reissued as a trade paperback by Millipede Press with an original Introduction by Poppy Z. Bright, a new Afterword by the author, and the J. K. Potter illustrations from the 1983 Scream/Press edition. A 300-copy signed hardcover was also available.
From the same imprint, Theodore Sturgeon’s Some of Your Blood contained the short 1961 novel, an associated story and a new Introduction by Steve Rasnic Tern, who signed the limited edition along with cover artist Harry O. Morris. Fredric Brown’s Here Comes a Candle was originally published in 1950. Millipede’s new edition included an extra story and essay by Brown, plus an Introduction by Bill Pronzini, who signed the limited hardcover.
Thomas Ligotti introduced Roland Topor’s surreal 1964 novel The Tenant, which included four related stories and a gallery of art by the author. Ridley Scott supplied a Foreword to William Hjorts-berg’s Falling Angel, which also included an Introduction by James Crumley, and Jonathan Lethem introduced John Franklin Bardin’s obscure crime thriller The Deadly Percheron, also featuring the first chapters of a previously unpublished novel by Bardin. As with the other titles from Millipede Press, it was released in both trade paperback and signed hardcover editions.
From Chicago’s Twilight Tales, My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence reprinted nine collaborations (including “Buffy” and “Hellboy” stories) between Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens, while Ex Cathedra collected eleven stories (four original) by Rebecca Maines (aka “Pamela D. Hodgson”) in an edition of 200 copies.
Edited by Myna Wallin and Halli Villegas, In the Dark: Stories from the Supernatural was an anthology of twenty-five stories (three reprints) and five poems (one reprint) from Canada’s Tightrope Books. Authors included Gemma Files and Brett Alexander Savory.
Produced by Spectre Library in a 200-copy limited edition, The Surgeon of Souls collected twelve stories about Dr Ivan Brodsky by Victor Rousseau. All but one was previously published in Weird Tales, but Mike Ashley’s well-researched Introduction revealed prior publication details about several of them.
From Ash-Tree Press, Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s classic 1922 werewolf mystery The Undying Monster was available in a new edition with an Introduction by Jack Adrian, limited to 500 copies.
Gothic Press founder Gary William Crawford was the author of Mysteries of Von Domarus and Other Stories, a collection of five tales.
Small Beer Press reissued Howard Waldrop’s 1986 collection Howard Who? as a square paperback with the original Introduction by George R. R. Martin. From the same imprint, Alan DeNiro’s debut collection Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead contained sixteen offbeat stories (three original).
Edited by James Ambuehl for Elder Signs Press/Dimensions Books, Hardboiled Cthulhu was an anthology of twenty-one Lovecraftian mystery stories (five reprints) and a poem from Richard A. Lupoff, Robert M. Price, J. F. Gonzalez and others. Arkham Tales: Legends of the Haunted City edited by William Jones featured seventeen stories based on the Lovecraftian Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.
Government bio-engineered ticks got loose in the Ozark Mountains and started killing people in the humorous novel Tick Hill by Billy (William R.) Eakin, published by Yard Dog Press.
Available from Dark Arts Books, Candy in the Dumpster: New and Used Stories featured twelve stories (six reprints) by Martin Mundt, John Everson, Bill Breedlove and Jay Bonansinga, with an Introduction by Mort Castle.
Edited by Ron Shiflet, Hell’s Hangman: Horror in the Old West was an original anthology from Tenoka Press featuring twenty-two “weird Western” stories, including one by the editor.
Then Comes the Child by husband and wife team Christopher Fulbright and Angeline Hawkes was a voodoo novella from Florida’s Carnifax Press.
Steve Deighan’s A Dead Calmness was a self-published collection of fourteen stories (six reprints) with an Introduction by the author. From the same writer, Things from the Past collected five stories and was available from Hadesgate Publications.
Also from Hadesgate, Tiny Terrors Volume 1 was a small volume of five stories, some of which were introduced by Guy N. Smith. Garry Charles’ Heaven’s Falling: Redemption was the second volume in the author’s Biblical fantasy series, from the same imprint.
Afterlife Battlefield was the third novel from “Johnny Ostentatious”, about what really happened to people who committed suicide. It was published in trade paperback by Active Bladder.
New Wyrd: A Wyrdsmith’s Anthology collected nine stories (one reprint) from the Minneapolis/St Paul writers’ group with an Introduction by Naomi Kritzer. It was limited to 250 numbered copies.
Selected from the Horror World website by editor Nanci Kalanta, Eulogies: A Horror World Yearbook 2005 featured thirteen stories by Tom Piccirilli, Elizabeth Massie, Michael Laimo, Christopher Golden, Gary Braunbeck, Rick Hautala, Jack Ketchum and others. It also included six essays by Matthew Warner, interviews with Piccirilli, Golden, F. Paul Wilson, Douglas Clegg, John Skipp and David Morrell, plus brief Q&As with the contributors.
Horror Library Volume 1 from Texas’ Cutting Block Press was edited with a Foreword by R. J. Cavender and contained thirty stories, including one by the editor. From the same imprint and edited by Frank J. Hutton, Butcher Shop Quartet: Four Bold Stories to Disturb the Adventurous Mind featured original tales by Boyd E. Harris, Clinton Green, Michael Stone and A. T. Andreas.
Bruce Boston’s writings were collected in Flashing in the Dark: Forty Short Fictions, a thin volume from Sam’s Dot Publishing, while Shades Fantastic was a volume of poetry from the same author, issued by Gromagon Press.
Twilight’s Last Gleaming was the first volume in Mike Philbin’s self-published and uncensored “Writing as Hertzan Chimera” series, from Chimericana Books. For Christmas, Philbin also edited Chimeraworld #4: Twenty Three Tales of Traffic Mayhem.
A paperback original from Hellhound Books Publishing, Damned Nation edited by Robert N. Lee and David T. Wilbanks contained twenty-two stories about “Hell on Earth” by Weston Ochse, Tom Piccirilli, Poppy Z. Brite, William F. Nolan, Gerard Houarner, James S. Dorr, Bev Vincent and others.