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• The Ecology of Reptiles • non-genre • (1993) • short story by John Coyne
• Dead Things Don't Move • non-genre • (1988) • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Hardshell • (1974) • novelette by Dean R. Koontz
• The Calligraphy Lesson • non-genre • (1993) • short story by Joyce Harrington
• The Rubber Smile • (1993) • short story by John Shirley
• The Defiance of the Ugly by the Merely Repulsive • (1993) • short story by James Kisner
• Mind Slash Matter • (1993) • novella by Edward Wellen
• Goddam Time • non-genre • (1993) • short story by Scott Fogel and J. N. Williamson
• The Society of the Scar • non-genre • [Simon Ark] • (1993) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• Life Near the Bone • non-genre • (1993) • short story by Billie Sue Mosiman
• Slasher • non-genre • (1989) • short story by F. Paul Wilson
• To Die For • (1993) • short story by Ed Naha
• Mistaken Identity • (1993) • short story by Terry L. Parkinson [as by T. L. Parkinson]
• The Man Who Collected Knives • (1993) • short story by John Gregory Betancourt
• The Roadside Scalpel • non-genre • (1993) • short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
• The Pharaoh's Crown • (1993) • short story by Christopher Fahy
• Slit • non-genre • (1993) • short story by Richard Laymon
• Rubies and Pearls • (1993) • short story by Rick Hautala
• Old Blood • (1993) • short story by Gary Brandner
• Heroes • (1993) • short story by Richard Chizmar [as by Richard T. Chizmar]
• Valentine • non-genre • (1993) • short story by Ed Gorman and Rex Miller [as by Rex Miller and Daniel Ransom]