Publication: The Year's Best Horror Stories: No. 1

Publication: The Year's Best Horror Stories: No. 1Publication Record # 256271
Editor: Richard Davis
Date: 1972-07-00
Catalog ID: UQ1013
Publisher: DAW Books
Pub. Series: DAW Collectors
Pub. Series #: 13
Price:
$0.95^?$: US dollar
Pages: 174
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
Cover: The Year's Best Horror Stories: No. 1 by Karel Thole (variant of Urania #561 1971)
Notes:
- Assumed 1st printing (not stated)
- Date not stated, but several DAW websites agree on July, 1972.
- DAW Collectors No. 13
- Cover and spine titled simply The Year's Best Horror Stories. "First Series" is in small print above the title on the cover. Title page states
  - The Year's Best HORROR STORIES No. 1
External IDs:
- FantLab: 222244
- OCLC/WorldCat: 317447569

Contents (view Concise Listing)

7 • Double Whammy • (1970) • short story by Robert Bloch
19 • The Sister City • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1969) • short story by Brian Lumley
33 • When Morning Comes • (1969) • short story by Elizabeth Fancett
51 • Prey • (1969) • short story by Richard Matheson
63 • Winter • (1969) • short story by Kit Reed
71 • Lucifer • (1969) • short story by E. C. Tubb (variant of Lucifer!)
83 • I Wonder What He Wanted • (1971) • short story by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of Ik zou wel eens willen weten wat hij wou 1972)
93 • Problem Child • (1970) • short story by Peter Oldale
101 • The Scar • (1969) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
117 • Warp • (1968) • short story by Ralph Norton
131 • The Hate • (1971) • short story by Terri E. Pinckard
137 • A Quiet Game • (1970) • short story by Celia Fremlin
145 • After Nightfall • (1970) • short story by David A. Riley [as by David Riley]
155 • Death's Door • (1969) • novelette by Robert McNear

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