The Ragthorn

ROBERT SILVERBERG uncovers the dark side of sunny suburbia when a stranger extracts the neuroses of an unsuspecting town....

SUZY McKEE CHARNAS lures a reluctant vampire to play a game with death....

JONATHAN CARROLL takes a dream vacation—and finds a nightmare come true....

CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO drains the soul of a brainwashed political pawn—in a harrowing walk between life and death....

DAVID J. SCHOW chronicles a vampire stalker—and makes believers of us

PLUS 13 OTHER TALES OF VAMPIRIFIC HORROR BY

KARL EDWARD WAGNER • KATHE KOJA • ELIZABETH MASSIE
• BARRY N. MALZBERG • RICK WILBER • THOMAS LIGOTTI
• MELISSA MIA HALL • JACK WOMACK • MELINDA M. SNODGRASS • THOMAS TESSIER • K.W. JETER • PAT CADIGAN • ROBERT HOLDSTOCK & GARRY KILWORTH