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• A Dead Summer • (1991) • short story by Lynne Tillman
• Banquo and the Black Banana: The Fierceness of the Delight of the Horror • (1991) • short story by Paul West (1930-2015)
• Blood • (1991) • short story by Janice Galloway
• Didn't She Know • (1991) • short story by Scott Bradfield
• Fever • non-genre • (1989) • novelette by John Edgar Wideman
• For Dear Life • non-genre • (1991) • short fiction by Ruth Rendell
• Freniere • (1976) • short fiction by Anne Rice
• Horrorday • (1989) • short fiction by Martin Amis
• Introduction (The New Gothic) • (1991) • essay by Patrick McGrath and Bradford Morrow
• J • non-genre • (1991) • short story by Kathy Acker
• Newton • non-genre • (1991) • short story by Jeanette Winterson
• Ovando • (1989) • short story by Jamaica Kincaid
• Regulus and Maximus • (1989) • short fiction by John Hawkes
• Rigor Beach • non-genre • (1975) • short story by Emma Tennant
• The Dead Queen • (1973) • short story by Robert Coover
• The Fish Keeper • non-genre • (1991) • short story by Yannick Murphy
• The Grave of Lost Stories • (1989) • novelette by William T. Vollmann
• The Kingdom of Heaven • (1991) • short fiction by Peter Straub
• The Merchant of Shadows • (1989) • novelette by Angela Carter
• The Road to Nadeja • non-genre • (1991) • short story by Bradford Morrow (variant of
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• The Smell • (1991) • short story by Patrick McGrath
• Why Don't You Come Live with Me It's Time • (1990) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates