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• xi • Introduction (Dark Forces) • (1980) • essay by Kirby McCauley
• 1 • The Mist • (1980) • novella by Stephen King
• 131 • The Late Shift • (1980) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 147 • The Enemy • (1980) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Der soyne 1970)
• 156 • Dark Angel • (1980) • short story by Edward Bryant
• 173 • The Crest of Thirty-Six • (1980) • short story by Davis Grubb
• 185 • Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale • (1980) • short story by Robert Aickman
• 206 • Where the Summer Ends • (1980) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 234 • The Bingo Master • (1980) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 256 • Children of the Kingdom • (1980) • novella by T. E. D. Klein
• 322 • The Detective of Dreams • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 340 • Vengeance Is. • (1980) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 348 • The Brood • (1980) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 361 • The Whistling Well • (1980) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 388 • The Peculiar Demesne • (1980) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 416 • Where the Stones Grow • (1980) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 429 • The Night Before Christmas • (1980) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 449 • The Stupid Joke • (1980) • poem by Edward Gorey
• 464 • A Touch of Petulance • (1980) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 475 • Lindsay and the Red City Blues • (1980) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 491 • A Garden of Blackred Roses • (1980) • novelette by Charles L. Grant
• 512 • Owls Hoot in the Daytime • [John the Balladeer] • (1980) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 525 • Where There's a Will • (1980) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson and Richard Matheson
• 533 • Traps • (1980) • short story by Gahan Wilson