The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IV

Often the line between science fiction and the weird tale defies detection. Because some science fiction can also be tales of horror and some terror tales can be science fictional. That is why you will find among the authors in this latest selection of the best horror stories of the past year some names familiar to SF: Hal Clement, R.A. Lafferty, Arthur Byron Cover. And you will also find some names best known for their triumphs in producing gooseflesh a la Lovecraft and Poe: Brian Lumley, Joseph Payne Brennan, Ramsey Campbell. And there are names that belong to readers of fantasy in all its many forms: Fritz Leiber, Avram Davidson, Frank Belknap Long. You will find many more, too, because this is the very special 4th Series of the one and only annual of horror tales produced in America.