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Short Story:

• 1987: "The Deep End" by Robert R. McCammon
  • "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll
  • "This Old Man" by Charles L. Grant
  • "Day-Tay-Vao" by F. Paul Wilson
  • "Traps" by F. Paul Wilson
• 1988: "Night They Missed the Horrow Show" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "The Young Thing at the Top of the Stairs" by Ray Bradbury
  • "She's a Young Thing and Cannot Leave Her Mother" by Harlan Ellison
  • "The Music of the Dark time" by Chet Williamson
  • "Jack's Decline" by Lucius Shepard
  • "Nobody Lives There Now" by Carol Orlock
• 1989: "Eat Me" by Robert R. McCammon
  • "A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned" by Edward Bryant
  • "Bodies and Heads" by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • "Each Night, Each Year" by Kathryn Ptacek
  • "'Yore Skin's Jes's Soft 'n Purdy' He Said" by Chet Williamson
• 1990: "The Calling" by David B. Silva
  • "Back Windows" by Steve Rasnic Tem
  • "But You'll Never Follow Me" by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "From the Papers of Helmut Hecher" by Chet Williamson
  • "The Loneliest Number" by Edward Bryant
• 1991: "Lady Madonna" by Nancy Holder
  • "The Ash of Memory, the Dust of Desire" by Poppy Z. Brite
  • "Love Doll: A Fable" by Joe R. Lansdale
  • "The Braille Encyclopaedia" by Grant Morrison
  • "Wolf Winter" by Maxine O'Callaghan
  • "Richard's Head" by Al Sarrantonio
• 1992: "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons
  • "Farm Wife" by Nancy Kilpatrick
  • "Did They Get You to Trade?" by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "Come One, Come All" by Gahan WilsonGahan Wilson is an author, cartoonist, and illustrator. Partial Bibliography Harry, the Fat Bear Spy and Harry and the Sea Serpent Everybody's Favorite Duck Eddy Deco's Last Caper A Night in the Lonesome October (illustrated by Gahan Wilson; written by Ro
  • "Bright Lights, Big Zombie" by Douglas E. Winter
• 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.: "I Hear the Mermaids Singing" by Nancy Holder
  • "Death Fiend Guerrillas" by William S. BurroughsWilliam Seward Burroughs ( February 5, 1914 August 2, 1997) was a bisexual American author associated with the Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac. He is best known as the author of Naked Lunch an unusual novel
  • "Distances" by Sherman AlexieSherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. born October 7, 1966 in Spokane, Washington) is an award-winning and prolific writer (of novels, short stories, poems, and screenplays) who lives in Seattle, Washington. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a modern N
  • "The Dog Park" by Dennis Etchison
  • "Pain Grin" by Wayne Allen Sallee
• 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an: "The Box" by Jack Ketchum (tie)
• 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an: "Cafe Endless: Spring Rain" by Nancy Holder (tie)
  • "Mr. Torso" by Edward Lee
  • "Things of Which We Do Not Speak" by Lucy Taylor
• 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja: "Chatting With Anubis" by Harlan Ellison
  • "Becky Lives" by Harry Crews
  • "The Bunglaow House" by Thomas Ligotti
  • "The Death of the Novel" by William Browning Spencer
• 1996: "metalica" by P.D. Cacek
  • "The Slobbering Tounge That Ate the Frightfully Huge Woman" by Robert Devereaux
  • "The Secret Shih Tan" by Graham Masterson
  • "The House of Mourning" by Brian Stableford
  • "Plan 10 from Inner Space" by Karl Edward Wagner
• 1997: "Rat Food" by Edo van Belkom & David Nickle
  • "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" by Douglas Clegg
  • "A Plague on Both Your Houses" by Scott Edelman
  • "Madame Babylon" by Brian Hodge

Short Fiction:

• 1998: "The Dead Boy at Your Window" by Bruce Holland Rogers
  • "Blues-Born" by Tina L. Jens
  • "Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King
  • "The Rug" by Edo van Belkom
• 1999: "Aftershock" by F. Paul Wilson
  • "The Grave" by P.D. Cacek
  • "The Entertainment" by Ramsey Campbell
  • "Halloween Street" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 2000: "Gone" by Jack Ketchum
  • "Dead Cat Bounce" by Gerard Daniel Houarner
  • "Fallen Angel" by Robert J. Sawyer
  • "Mexican Moon" by Karen E. Taylor
• 2001: "Reconstructing Amy" by Tim Lebbon
  • "I Am Your Need" by Mort Castle
  • "The Haunt" by Jack Ketchum
  • "Whose Puppets, Best and Worst, Are We?" by David B. Silva
• 2002: "The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Depair" by Tom Piccirilli
  • "Dissapearances" by Mort Castle
  • "The Green Man" by Christopher Fowler
  • "The Plague Species" by Charlee Jacob
  • "Details" by China Mieville