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• xi • Introduction (Dark Forces) • (1980) • essay by Kirby McCauley
• 1 • The Late Shift • (1980) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 16 • The Enemy • (1980) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Der soyne 1970)
• 24 • Dark Angel • (1980) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 39 • The Crest of Thirty-Six • (1980) • short story by Davis Grubb
• 50 • Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale • (1980) • short story by Robert Aickman
• 69 • Where the Summer Ends • (1980) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 95 • The Bingo Master • (1980) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 115 • Children of the Kingdom • (1980) • novella by T. E. D. Klein
• 174 • The Detective of Dreams • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 190 • Vengeance Is. • (1980) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 197 • The Brood • (1980) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 209 • The Whistling Well • (1980) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 234 • The Peculiar Demesne • (1980) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 259 • Where the Stones Grow • (1980) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 271 • The Night Before Christmas • (1980) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 289 • The Stupid Joke • (1980) • poem by Edward Gorey
• 304 • A Touch of Petulance • (1980) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 314 • Lindsay and the Red City Blues • (1980) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 329 • A Garden of Blackred Roses • (1980) • novelette by Charles L. Grant
• 349 • Owls Hoot in the Daytime • [John the Balladeer] • (1980) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 361 • Where There's a Will • (1980) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson and Richard Matheson
• 368 • Traps • (1980) • short story by Gahan Wilson
• 374 • The Mist • (1980) • novella by Stephen King