[The Year's Best Horror Stories 20] • The Year's Best Horror Stories 20

Open the coffin lid if you dare—and loose all the haunting specters in

this 20th volume of the year's most frightening tales of terror....

From a Toronto bar to a little-known Greek isle to a war-torn Vietnamese

village to a very private church in the heart of Ohio, this

around-the-world trek through the many landscapes of horror is a truly

terrifying festival of the macabre. Karl Edward Wagner has once again

recruited the best of the best—from such familiar masters of malice as

Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, and Brian Lumley to today's brightest

new talents—to craft a fitting twentieth anniversary edition for a

series which, year after year, has provided readers with that

unforgettable chill of fear, that adrenaline rush of terror, and that

wondrous feeling of relief at escaping safely back to the security of

everyday existence.

See what happens to a man who discovers that too much knowledge really

can be a dangerous thing....Discover the perils of falling under the

spell of one's own music....Walk an otherworldly beat with a cop who may

find herself converted by the disciples of an all-consuming god....Take

a family vacation on an island where your hosts insist on making your

stay a permanent one....