The Year's Best Horror Stories: VI

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Summary: Synopsis from book cover
Review: DAW 1978 printing- THe Year's Best Horror Stories Series VI
Edited by Gerald W. Page

Featuring:
Stephen King
Tanith Lee
Michael Bishop
Russell Kirk
Charles L. Grant and many more

"Bloodcurling Enjoyment"- Westworld
Excellent reviews , such as that above greeted Gerald Page's previous selections of the best weird and horror stories of the year... and similar acclaim is sure to greet this latest volume. For undoubtedly this one is the best thus far, with thirteen tales that range the scale of terror from tingles in the spine to hair-raising nightmare -makers.

Among the authors represented here are bestsellers like Stephen King of Salem's Lot and The Shining, prize-winners like Charles L. Grant of Nebula honor, new masters like Michael Bishop of Beneath the Shattered Moons, and Tanith Lee of The Birthgrave and The Storm Lord. There are the old masters such as Manly Wade Wellman, Russell Kirk, and Ramsey Campbell. And the skills of Lisa Tuttle, Janet Fox, David Drake and others .

From TOC- the short stories included:
David Campton- At the Bottom of the Garden
Janet Fox- Screaming to Get OUt
Karl Edward Wagner- Undertow
Dennis Etchison- I Can Hear the Dark
Many Wade Wellman- Ever the Faith Endures
Lisa Tuttle- The Horse Lord
Tanith Lee- Winter White
William Scott Home- A Cobweb of Pulsing Veins
David Drake- Best of Luck
Stephen King- Children of the Corn
Charles L. Grant- If Damon COmes
Ramsey Campbell- Drawing In
Michael Bishop- Within the Walls Of Tyre