THE EDITORS WOULD like to thank Avon Books, Pulphouse Publishing, and Chris Reed, for their help and support. Thanks are also due to the magazines Locus (Editor & Publisher Charles N. Brown, Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661, USA) and Science Fiction Chronicle (Editor & Publisher Andrew I. Porter, P.O. Box 2730, Brooklyn, NY 11202–0056, USA) which were used as reference sources in the Introduction and Necrology.
INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 1990 Copyright © 1991 by Stephen Jones and Ramsey Campbell.
THE FIRST TIME Copyright © 1990 by K.W. Jeter. Originally published in Alien Sex. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.
A SHORT GUIDE TO THE CITY Copyright © 1990 by The Seafront Corporation. Originally published in Houses Without Doors. Reprinted by permission of the author.
STEPHEN Copyright © 1990 by Elizabeth Massie. Originally published in Borderlands. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE DEAD LOVE YOU Copyright © 1990 by Jonathan Carroll. Originally published in Omni Vol.13, No.3, December 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.
JANE DOE#112 Copyright © 1990 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine No.576, December 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
SHOCK RADIO Copyright © 1990 by Ray Garton. Originally published in Methods of Madness. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE MAN WHO DREW CATS Copyright © 1990 by Michael Marshall Smith. Originally published in Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE CO-OP Copyright © 1990 by Melanie Tem. Originally published in Women of Darkness II. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE LAST FEAST OF HARLEQUIN Copyright © 1990 by Thomas Ligotti. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction No.467, April 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
NEGATIVES Copyright © 1990 by Nicholas Royle. Originally published in Interzone No.35, May 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
1/72ND SCALE Copyright © 1990 by Terminus Publishing Co., Inc. Originally published in Weird Tales No.298, Fall 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
CEDAR LANE Copyright © 1990 by Karl Edward Wagner. Originally published in Walls of Fear. Reprinted by permission of the author.
AT A WINDOW FACING WEST Copyright © 1990 by Kim Antieau. Originally published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mid-December 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
INSIDE THE WALLED CITY Copyright © 1990 by Garry Kilworth. Originally published in Walls of Fear. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ON THE WING (Originally published as “A la Volette” in Breves No.33/34). English version copyright © 1990 by Jean-Daniel Breque and Nicholas Royle. First published in Fantasy Tales No.5, Autumn 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
FIREBIRD Copyright © 1990 by J.L. Comeau. Originally published in The Women Who Walk Through Fire. Reprinted by permission of the author.
INCIDENT ON A RAINY NIGHT IN BEVERLY HILLS Copyright © 1990 by David J. Schow. Originally published in Seeing Red. Reprinted by permission of the author.
HIS MOUTH WILL TASTE OF WORMWOOD Copyright © 1990 by Poppy Z. Brite. Originally published in Borderlands. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE ORIGINAL DR SHADE Copyright © 1990 by Kim Newman. Originally published in Interzone No.36, June 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
MADGE Copyright © 1990 by D.F. Lewis. Originally published in Back Brain Recluse No. 15, Spring 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ALIVE IN VENICE Copyright © 1990 by Cherry Wilder. Originally published in Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror. Reprinted by permission of the author.
DIVERTIMENTO Copyright © 1989 by Gregory Frost. Originally published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, December 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
PELTS Copyright © 1990 by F. Paul Wilson. Originally published in Pelts. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THOSE OF RHENEA Copyright © 1990 by David Sutton. Originally published in Skeleton Crew, November 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
LORD OF THE LAND Copyright © 1990 by Gene Wolfe. Originally published in Lovecraft’s Legacy. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.
AQUARIUM Copyright © 1990 by Steve Rasnic Tem. Originally published in The Seaharp Hotel. Reprinted by permission of the author.
MISTER ICE COLD Copyright © 1990 by Gahan Wilson. Originally published in Omni Vol.12, No.7, April 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ON THE TOWN ROUTE Copyright © 1989 by Elizabeth Hand. Originally published in Pulphouse Issue Five, Fall 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.
NECROLOGY: 1990 Copyright © 1991 by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman.