Julian Lloyd Webber (ed.) – Short Sharp Shocks (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990)
Introduction – Julian Lloyd Webber
Bernard Taylor – Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake
Conrad Hill – The Bushmaster
John Collier – De Mortuis
Arthur Machen – The Bright Boy
David Morrell – But at My Back I Always Hear
J. Yen – A Weird Day for Agro
James Kisner – The Litter
Andrea Newman – She’ll Be Company for You
Sydney J. Bounds – A Complete Collection
Leonard P. Carpenter – Dead Week
William Trevor – Miss Smith
Conrad Hill – The Grief Condition
R. Andrew Hall – The Other Woman
R. C. Cook – Green Fingers
Marghanita Laski – The Tower
Francis King – The Doll
William F. Nolan – Dead Call
Son of The Phantom Of The Opera in decent anthology shocker! Somebody’s been ransacking their old Fontana and Pan Horror books and more power to him.
Thanks to Charles “the new Herbert Van Thal!” Black for digging this one up, and ….
… thanks to All Things Horror for providing the cover scan!