Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction: Horror in 1996 • [Horror in ... Introductions] • (1997) • essay by Stephen Jones
• 49 • Walking the Dog • (1996) • novelette by Terry Lamsley
• 86 • Mussolini and the Axeman's Jazz • (1995) • novelette by Poppy Z. Brite
• 109 • An Eye for an Eye • (1996) • short story by Norman Partridge
• 124 • Underworld • (1997) • short story by Douglas Clegg (variant of Underground 1996)
• 138 • The Curse of Kali • (1996) • short story by Cherry Wilder
• 154 • The Film • (1997) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• 161 • Of a Cat, But Her Skin • (1996) • short story by Storm Constantine
• 176 • Hopscotch • (1996) • short story by Donald R. Burleson
• 188 • Ghost in the Machine • (1996) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 194 • The Moon Never Changes • (1996) • short story by Joel Lane
• 205 • Butcher's Logic • (1996) • short story by Roberta Lannes
• 217 • Kites and Kisses • (1996) • short story by D. F. Lewis
• 224 • Last Train to Arnos Grove • (1996) • short story by Marni Scofidio Griffin [as by Marni Griffin]
• 233 • The King of Rain • (1996) • novelette by Mark Chadbourn
• 258 • Hardball • [Norton, Prisoner of London] • (1996) • short story by Iain Sinclair
• 269 • Gas Station Carnivals • (1996) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 286 • Ghost Music: A Memoir by George Beaune • (1996) • short story by Thomas Tessier
• 305 • That Blissful Height • (1996) • novelette by Gregory Frost
• 340 • Skin Deep • (1996) • short story by Nicholas Royle
• 357 • Hell Hath Enlarged Herself • (1996) • novelette by Michael Marshall Smith
• 382 • Unforgotten • (1996) • novelette by Christopher Fowler
• 401 • A Plague on Both Your Houses • (1996) • short fiction by Scott Edelman
• 435 • Final Cut • (1996) • short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• 443 • The Break • (1996) • novelette by Terry Lamsley
• 489 • Necrology: 1996 • [Necrology (Jones & Newman)] • (1997) • essay by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman
• 510 • Useful Addresses (The Best New Horror: Volume Eight) • (1997) • essay by uncredited