The barrens / F. Paul Wilson -- Pickman's modem / Lawrence Watt-Evans -- Shaft number 247 / Basil Copper -- His mouth will taste of wormwood / Poppy Z. Brite -- The adder / Fred Chappell -- Fat face / Michael Shea -- The big fish / Kim Newman -- "I had vacantly crumpled it into my pocket ... but by God, Eliot, it was a photograph from life!" / Joanna Russ -- H.P.L. / Gahan Wilson -- The unthinkable / Bruce Sterling -- Black man with a horn / T. E. D. Klein -- Love's Eldritch Ichor / Esther M. Friesner -- The last feast of Harlequin / Thomas Ligotti -- The shadow on the doorstep / James P. Blaylock -- Lord of the land / Gene Wolfe -- The faces at Pine Dunes / Ramsey Campbell -- On the slab / Harlan Ellison -- 24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai / Roger Zelazny.