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BOOK DEALERS

Bookfellows/Mystery and Imagination Books( www.mysteryandimagination.com ) is owned and operated by Malcolm and Christine Bell, who have been selling fine and rare books since 1975. This clean and neatly organised store includes SF/fantasy/horror/mystery, along with all other areas of popular literature. Many editions are signed, and catalogues are issued regularly. Credit cards accepted. Open seven days a week at 238 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale, California 91203, USA. Tel: (818) 545–0206. Fax: (818) 545–0094. E-mail: bookfellows@gowebway.com

Borderlands Books( www.borderlands-books.com ) is a nicely designed store with friendly staff and an impressive stock of new and used books from both sides of the Atlantic. 866 Valencia Street (at 19th), San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. Tel: (415) 824–8203 or (888) 893–4008 (toll free in the US). Credit cards accepted. Worldwide shipping. E-mail: office@borderlands-books.com

Cold Tonnage Books( www.coldtonnage.com ) offers excellent mail order new and used SF/fantasy/horror, art, reference, limited editions etc. Write to: Andy & Angela Richards, Cold Tonnage Books, 22 Kings Lane, Windlesham, Surrey GU20 6JQ, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel: +44 (0)1276–475388. E-mail: andy@coldtonnage.co.uk

Ken Cowleyoffers mostly used SF/fantasy/horror/crime/superna-tural, collectibles, pulps, videos etc. by mail order at very reasonable prices. Write to: Trinity Cottage, 153 Old Church Road, Clevedon, North Somerset, BS21 7TU, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1275–872247. E-mail: kencowley@blueyonder.co.uk

Dark Delicacies( www.darkdel.com ) is a friendly Burbank, California, store specialising in horror books, toys, vampire merchandise and signings. They also do mail order and run money-saving book club and membership discount deals. 4213 West Burbank Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505, USA. Tel: (818) 556–6660 . Credit cards accepted. E-mail: darkdel@darkdel.com

DreamHaven Books& Comics( www.dreamhavenbooks.com ) store and mail order offers new and used SF/fantasy/horror/art and illustrated etc. with regular catalogues (both print and e-mail). Write to: 912 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA. Credit cards accepted. Tel: (612) 823–6070. E-mail: dream@dream havenbooks.com

Fantastic Literature( www.fantasticliterature.com ) mail order offers the UK’s biggest online out-of-print SF/fantasy/horror genre bookshop. Fanzines, pulps and vintage paperbacks as well. Write to: Simon and Laraine Gosden, Fantastic Literature, 35 The Ramparts, Rayleigh, Essex SS6 8PY, UK. Credit cards and Pay Pal accepted. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1268–747564. E-mail: sgosden@netcomuk.co.uk

Fantasy Centre( www.fantasycentre.biz ) shop (open 10:00am-6:00pm, Monday to Saturday) and mail order has used SF/fan-tasy/horror, art, reference, pulps etc. at reasonable prices with regular bi-monthly catalogues. They also stock a wide range of new books from small, specialist publishers. Write to: 157 Holloway Road, London N7 8LX, UK. Credit cards accepted. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)20–7607 9433. E-mail: books@fantasycentre.biz

Ferret Fantasy,27 Beechcroft Road, Upper Tooting, London SW17 7BX. George Locke’s legendary mail-order business now shares retail premises at Greening Burland, 27 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4EZ, UK (10:00am-6:00pmweedays;10:00am-5:00pm Sundays). Used SF/ fantasy/horror, antiquarian, modern first editions. Catalogues issued. Tel: +44 (0)20–8767–0029. E-mail: george_locke@hotmail.com

Ghost Storiesrun by Richard Dalby issues semi-regular mail order lists of used ghost and supernatural volumes at very reasonable prices. Write to: 4 Westbourne Park, Scarborough, North Yorkshire Y012 4AT, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1723 377049.

Kayo Books( www.kayobooks.com ) is a bright, clean treasure-trove of used SF/fantasy/horror/mystery/pulps spread over two floors. Titles are stacked alphabetically by subject, and there are many bargains to be had. Credit cards accepted. Visit the store (Wednesday-Saturday, 11:00am to 6:00pm) at 814 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA or order off their website. Tel: (415) 749 0554. E-mail: kayo@kayobooks.com

Porcupine Booksoffers regular catalogues and extensive mail order lists of used fantasy/horror/SF titles via e-mail brian@porcupine.demon.co.uk or write to: 37 Coventry Road, Ilford, Essex IG1 4QR, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8554–3799.

Kirk Ruebotham( www.abebooks.com/home/kirk61/ ) is a mail-order only dealer, who sells out-of-print and used horror/SF/fantasy/ crime and related non-fiction at very good prices, with regular catalogues. Write to: 16 Beaconsfield Road, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 4BX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1928–560540 (10:00am-8:00pm). E-mail: kirk.ruebotham@ntlworld.com

The Talking Deadis run by Bob and Julie Wardzinski and offers reasonably priced paperbacks, rare pulps and hardcovers, with catalogues issued regularly. They accept wants lists and are also the exclusive supplier of back issues of Interzone . Credit cards accepted. Contact them at: 12 Rosamund Avenue, Merley, Wim-borne, Dorset BH21 1TE, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1202–849212 (9:00am-9:00pm). E-mail: books@thetalkingdead.fsnet.co.uk

Ygor’s Booksspecialises in out-of-print science fiction, fantasy and horror titles, including British, signed, speciality press and limited editions. They also buy books, letters and original art in these fields. E-mail: ygorsbooks@earthlink.net

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Horror in 2006

Summer

Digging Deep

The Night Watch

The Luxury of Harm

Sentinels

The Saffron Gatherers

What Nature Abhors

The Last Reel

The American Dead

Between the Cold Moon and the Earth

Sob in the Silence

Continuity Error

Dr Prida’s Dream-Plagued Patient

The Ones We Leave Behind

Mine

Obsequy

Thrown

Houses Under the Sea

They

The Clockwork Horror

Making Cabinets

Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter (Fantasy)

Devil’s Smile

The Man Who Got Off the Ghost Train

Necrology: 2006

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