A Survey of Short Horror Stories

Gathering the Bones: Original Stories from the World’s Masters of Horror

Editors: Campbell, Ramsey; Jack Dann, and Dennis Etchison
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 447pp.
Pub. Date: August 16, 2003
Publisher: Tor Books

Nominated for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology
Nominated for the 2003 IHG Award Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in an Anthology

A Chilling new anthology of all-original tales of horror

The anthology market these days is awash with small, themed works focused on very specific markets, like vampire erotica and tales of werewolves, or it features best of the year reprints. It has been years since anyone has dared to bring out a broad-reaching anthology that seeks to define the current state of the genre with all original tales from both masters and hot new writers.

Collected here are 34 stories from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, each selected by the editor from its country of origin.

This anthology provides a unique insight at the shape of horror in three different countries yet all in the English language.

Table of Contents:

• The Hanged Man of Oz by Steve Nagy
• The Bone Ship by Terry Dowling
• Li’l Miss Ultrasound by Robert Devereaux
• The Intervention by Kim Newman
• Blake’s Angel by Janeen Webb
• The Obedient Child by George Clayton Johnson
• Sounds Like by Mike O’Driscoll
• The Wind Sall Blow for Ever Mair by Stephen Dedman
• “The Mezzotint” by Lisa Tuttle
• The Lords of Zero by Tony Richards
• Smoke City by Russell Blackford
• Moments of Change by Thomas Tessier
• The Big Green Grin by Gahan Wilson
• Both And by Gary Fry
• Love Is a Stone by Simon Brown
• Momento Mori by Ray Bradbury
• The Mistress of Marwood Hagg by Sara Douglass
• The Right Men by Michael Marshall Smith
• The Raptures of the Deep by Rosaleen Love
• Out Late in the Park by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Bedfordshire by Peter Crowther
• Mr. Sly Stops for a Cup of Joe by Scott Emerson Bull
• Finishing School by Cherry Wilder
• Jennifer’s Turn by Fruma Klass
• Mother’s Milk by Adam L. G. Neville
• No Man’s Land by Chris Lawson and Simon Brown
• The Watcher at the Window by Donald R. Burleson
• Coming of Age by Joel Lane
• Picking Up Courtney by Tim Waggoner
• Watchmen by Aaron Sterns
• Gardens by Melanie Tem
• Under the Bright and Hollow Sky by Andrew J. Wilson
• The Dove Game by Isobelle Carmody
• Tiger Moth by Graham Joyce