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• A Garden of Blackred Roses • (1980) • novelette by Charles L. Grant
• A Touch of Petulance • (1980) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Children of the Kingdom • (1980) • novella by T. E. D. Klein
• Dark Angel • (1980) • short story by Edward Bryant
• Introduction (Dark Forces) • (1980) • essay by Kirby McCauley
• Lindsay and the Red City Blues • (1980) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale • (1980) • short story by Robert Aickman
• Owls Hoot in the Daytime • [John the Balladeer] • (1980) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• The Bingo Master • (1980) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Brood • (1980) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Crest of Thirty-Six • (1980) • short story by Davis Grubb
• The Detective of Dreams • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• The Enemy • (1980) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Der soyne 1970)
• The Late Shift • (1980) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• The Mist • (1980) • novella by Stephen King
• The Night Before Christmas • (1980) • short story by Robert Bloch
• The Peculiar Demesne • (1980) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• The Stupid Joke • (1980) • poem by Edward Gorey
• The Whistling Well • (1980) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• Traps • (1980) • short story by Gahan Wilson
• Vengeance Is. • (1980) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• Where the Stones Grow • (1980) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• Where the Summer Ends • (1980) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• Where There's a Will • (1980) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson and Richard Matheson
• New Afterword (Dark Forces) • essay by Kirby McCauley
•  Dark Forces • interior artwork by Alan M. Clark
•  Dark Forces • interior artwork by Glenn Chadbourne
•  Dark Forces • interior artwork by Keith Minnion
•  Dark Forces • interior artwork by Allen Koszowski
•  Dark Forces • interior artwork by Jill Bauman
•  Dark Forces • interior artwork by Alex McVey
•  Dark Forces • interior artwork by Chad Savage
•  Dark Forces • interior artwork by Erik Wilson
• Dark Forces: The 25th Anniversary Special Edition • interview of Kirby McCauley • interview by Kealan Patrick Burke
•  The Stupid Joke • (1980) • interior artwork by Edward Gorey