• Publication: Dark Forces Publication Record # 126051
• Editor: Kirby McCauley
• Date: 1981-00-00
• ISBN: 0-7088-1979-6 [978-0-7088-1979-1]
• Publisher: Futura
• Price: £1.95
• Pages: xiv+551
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: There were two reprints in 1981.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Introduction (Dark Forces) • (1980) • essay by Kirby McCauley
• 1 • The Late Shift • (1980) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 18 • The Enemy • (1980) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Der soyne 1970)
• 27 • Dark Angel • (1980) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 44 • The Crest of Thirty-six • (1980) • short story by Davis Grubb
• 56 • Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale • (1980) • short story by Robert Aickman
• 77 • Where the Summer Ends • (1980) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 106 • The Bingo Master • (1980) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 129 • Children of the Kingdom • (1980) • novella by T. E. D. Klein
• 196 • The Detective of Dreams • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 214 • Vengeance Is. • (1980) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 222 • The Brood • (1980) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 235 • The Whistling Well • (1980) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 263 • The Peculiar Demesne • (1980) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 292 • Where the Stones Grow • (1980) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 306 • The Night Before Christmas • (1980) • novelette by Robert Bloch
• 327 • The Stupid Joke • (1980) • short fiction by Edward Gorey
• 342 • A Touch of Petulance • (1980) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 353 • Lindsay and the Red City Blues • (1980) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 369 • A Garden of Blackred Roses • (1980) • novelette by Charles L. Grant
• 391 • Owls Hoot in the Daytime • [John the Balladeer] • (1980) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 404 • Where There's a Will • (1980) • short story by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson
• 412 • Traps • (1980) • short story by Gahan Wilson
• 419 • The Mist • (1980) • novella by Stephen King