The Mammoth Book of Terror
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Authors: Stephen Jones
S
TEPHEN
J
ONES
lives in London. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Horror Writers
Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being a fifteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television
producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant (the first three
Hellraiser
movies,
Night Life
,
Nightbreed
,
Split Second
,
Mind Ripper
,
Last Gasp
etc.), he is the co-editor of
Horror: 100
Best Books
,
The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales
,
Gaslight & Ghosts, Now We Are Sick
,
HP. Lovecraft’s Book of
Horror
,
The Anthology of
Fantasy & the Supernatural
,
Secret City: Strange Taks of London, Great Ghost Stories
and
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
,
Dark
Terrors, Dark Voices
and
Fantasy Taks
series. He has written
Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide, The Essential
Monster Movie Guide
,
The Illustrated
Vampire Movie Guide
,
The
Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide, The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie
Guide
and
The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide
, and compiled
The
Mammoth Book of Terror
,
The Mammoth Book of Vampires
,
The
Mammoth Book of Zombies
,
The Mammoth Book of Werewolves
,
The
Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The
Mammoth Book ofDracula, The
Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories By Women, The Mammoth Book of New Terror
,
Shadows Over Innsmouth
,
Dark Detectives, Dancing With
the Dark,
Dark of the Night, White of the Moon, Keep Out the Night, By
Moonlight Only, Don’t Turn Out the Light, Exorcisms and Ecstasies
by Karl Edward Wagner,
The Vampire Stories of R.
Chetwynd-Hayes, Phantoms and Fiends
and
Frights and Fancies
by R. Chetwynd-Hayes,
James Herbert: By Horror Haunted, The Conan Chronicks
by Robert E. Howard (two volumes),
The
Emperor of Dreams: The
Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, Clive Barker
’
s A-Z of Horror, Clive
Barker
’
s Shadows in Eden, Clive Barker’s The Nightbreed
Chronicks
and the
Hellraiser Chronicles.
You can visit his web site at
www.herebedragons.co.uk/jones
Also available
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Science Fiction
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The Mammoth Book of Heroes
The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits
The Mammoth Book of How It Happened
The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: America
The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Ancient Egypt
The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Ancient Rome
The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Battles
The Mammoth Book of How It Happened In Britain
The Mammoth Book of International Erotica
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper
The Mammoth Book of Jokes
The Mammoth Book of Maneaters
The Mammoth Book of Mountain Disasters
The Mammoth Book of Native Americans
The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories
The Mammoth Book of Prophecies
The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action
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The Mammoth Book of Vampires (New Edition)
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
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The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries
Constable & Robinson Ltd
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First published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2004
Collection and editorial material
copyright © Stephen Jones 2004
Interior illustrations copyright © Randy Broecker 2004
Cover art copyright © John Picacio 2004
www.johnpicacio.com
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ISBN 1-84119-949-4
eISBN 978-1-78033-279-6
Printed and bound in the EU
2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1
Recreating the Terror
BRIAN LUMLEY
CHARLES L. GRANT
CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
DENNIS ETCHISON
SYDNEY J. BOUNDS
F. PAUL WILSON
BASIL COPPER
RAMSEY CAMPBELL
PHYLLIS EISENSTEIN
GRAHAM MASTERTON
E.C. TUBB
BRIAN MOONEY
TERRY LAMSLEY
LISA TUTTLE
R. CHETWYND-HAYES
DAVID J. SCHOW
KARL EDWARD WAGNER
TANITH LEE & JOHN KAIINE
NEIL GAIMAN
PAT CADIGAN
TIM LEBBON & BRIAN KEENE
MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH
CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN
Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in the Air
GLEN HIRSHBERG
Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue or: Children of Marx and Coca-Cola
KIM NEWMAN
DAVID CASE
INTRODUCTION: RECREATING THE TERROR copyright © Stephen Jones 2004.
FRUITING BODIES copyright © Brian Lumley 1988. Originally published in
Weird Tales
No. 291, Summer 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agents, Dorian Literary
Agency.
NEEDLE SONG copyright © Gary Hoppenstand 1979. Originally published in
Midnight Sun
Number 5. Reprinted by permission of the author.
TURBO-SATAN copyright © Christopher Fowler 2004.
TALKING IN THE DARK copyright © Dennis Etchison 1984. Originally published in
Shadows 7.
Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE CIRCUS copyright © Sydney J. Bounds 1980. Originally published in
The Thirteenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories.
Reprinted by permission of the author and the
author’s agents, Cosmos Literary Agency.
FOET copyright © F. Paul Wilson 1991. Originally published in
Borderlands 2: An Anthology of Imaginative Fiction.
Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE CANDLE IN THE SKULL copyright © Basil Copper 1984. Originally published in
Hallowe’en Hauntings.
Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE CHIMNEY copyright © Stuart David Schiff 1977. Originally published in
Whispers: An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror.
Reprinted by permission of the author.
DARK WINGS copyright © Phyllis Eisenstein 1982. Originally published in
Shadows 5.
Reprinted by permission of the author.
REFLECTION OF EVIL copyright © Graham Masterton 2004. Originally published in an abridged version as “Half-Sick of Shadows” on
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/vampires
. Reprinted by permission of the author.
MIRROR OF THE NIGHT copyright © E.C. Tubb 1988. Originally published in
Fantasy Annual #2.
Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Cosmos Literary
Agency.
MAYPOLE copyright © Brian Mooney 2004.
UNDER THE CRUST copyright © Terry Lamsley 1993. Originally published in
Under the Crust.
Reprinted by permission of the author.
TIR NAN OG copyright © Lisa Tuttle 1999. Originally published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
, January 1999. Reprinted by permission of the author.
A LIVING LEGEND copyright © R. Chetwynd-Hayes 1982. Originally published in
Tales from Beyond.
Reprinted by permission of the author’s Estate.