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• 9 • Introduction (Dark Masques) • essay by J. N. Williamson
• Masques • [Masques • 1] • (1984) • anthology by J. N. Williamson
• 11 • Nightcrawlers • (1984) • novelette by Robert R. McCammon
• 37 • Somebody Like You • (1984) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 45 • Samhain: Full Moon • (1984) • poem by Ardath Mayhar
• 49 • I Have Made My Bones Secure • (1984) • poem by Ardath Mayhar
• 52 • Third Wind • (1984) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• 62 • Redbeard • (1984) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 69 • The Turn of Time • (1984) • short story by David B. Silva
• 82 • Soft • (1984) • short story by F. Paul Wilson
• 98 • House Mothers • (1984) • short story by J. N. Williamson
• 110 • Party Time • (1984) • short story by Mort Castle
• 113 • Everybody Needs a Little Love • (1984) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 133 • Angel's Exchange • (1984) • short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• 135 • Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock • (1984) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 140 • The First Day of Spring • (1984) • short story by David Knoles
• 155 • Czadek • (1984) • short story by Ray Russell
• 166 • The Old Men Know • (1984) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 186 • The Substitute • (1984) • short story by Gahan Wilson
• 199 • The Alteration • (1984) • short story by Dennis Hamilton
• 213 • Trust Not a Man • (1984) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 227 • Long After Ecclesiastes • (1983) • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 230 • A Short, Incandescent Life • (1984) • essay by Ray Russell
• 234 • My Grandmother's Japonicas • (1984) • short story by Charles Beaumont
• 247 • Charles Beaumont: The Magic Man • (1967) • essay by William F. Nolan
• Masques II • [Masques • 2] • (1987) • anthology by J. N. Williamson
• 251 • Popsy • (1987) • short story by Stephen King
• 267 • Second Sight • (1987) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 275 • The Yard • (1987) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 284 • The New Season • (1987) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 293 • The Near Departed • non-genre • (1987) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 296 • Ice Sculptures • (1987) • short story by David B. Silva
• 308 • Wiping the Slate Clean • (1987) • short story by G. Wayne Miller
• 317 • The Litter • (1987) • short story by James Kisner
• 332 • Splatter: A Cautionary Tale • (1987) • short story by Douglas E. Winter
• 344 • Deathbed • (1987) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• 346 • American Gothic • (1987) • short story by Ray Russell
• 365 • Moist Dreams • (1987) • short story by Stanley Wiater
• 369 • Dog, Cat, and Baby • (1987) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 371 • Nothing from Nothing Comes • (1987) • short story by Katherine Ramsland
• 383 • If You Take My Hand, My Son • (1987) • short story by Mort Castle
• 393 • Maurice and Mog • (1987) • short story by James Herbert
• 403 • Fish Story • (1987) • short story by Dennis Hamilton
• 416 • Outsteppin' Fetchit • (1987) • short story by Charles R. Saunders
• 423 • In the Tank • (1987) • short story by Ardath Mayhar
• 430 • Hidey Hole • (1987) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 436 • The Night Is Freezing Fast • (1987) • short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
• 447 • Buried Talents • (1987) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 455 • Lake George in High August • (1987) • short story by John Robert Bensink
• 460 • Wordsong • (1987) • short story by J. N. Williamson
• 468 • The Man Who Drowned Puppies • (1987) • short story by Thomas Sullivan
• 474 • The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead • (1987) • novelette by Alan Rodgers