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• 9 • Hardcore Carnival: Introduction • essay by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax
• 13 • Vigil • (2018) • short story by Chad Lutzke
• 23 • Hair and Teeth • (2018) • short story by Deborah Sheldon
• 33 • Rut Seasons • (2018) • short story by Brian Hodge
• 51 • Control • (2018) • short story by Jeff Parsons
• 59 • Cilantro • (2010) • short story by Annie Neugebauer
• 69 • Voices Like Barbed Wire • (2018) • short story by Tim Waggoner
• 85 • Bent • (2018) • novelette by Rebecca Rowland
• 113 • Lord of the Mesa • (2018) • short story by Scáth Beorhthe
• 125 • Godhead Grimoir • (2018) • short story by Sean Patrick Hazlett
• 139 • Carnal Bodies • (2018) • short story by R. E. Hellinger
• 153 • Crossroads of Opportunity • (2018) • short story by Doungjai Gam and Ed Kurtz
• 165 • Dad's Famous Preserves • (2017) • short story by Seras Nikita
• 183 • The Bearded Woman • (2018) • short fiction by Alessandro Manzetti
• 191 • The Devil's Dreamland • (2018) • poem by Sara Tantlinger
• 213 • All God's Creatures Got Reasons • (2018) • short story by Frank Oreto
• 225 • The Ugly • (2018) • novelette by J. R. Park
• 247 • I Have a Confession • (2018) • short fiction by Douglas Ford
• 257 • When the Owls Call • (2018) • short story by Lyman Graves
• 271 • Bloodletting and Intrigue on All Hallows' Eve • (2018) • short fiction by Jeremy Thompson
• 287 • Monkey See, Monkey Do • (2018) • short fiction by Alicia Hilton
• 291 • Author Bios (Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 4) • essay by uncredited