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The Best Horror Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Volume 2
The Voice of Horror
Hear it whispering - more urgently with every page, echoing through an abandoned churchyard, or a suburban home. Haunting the thoughts of a ruthless art-thief, or a couple trapped in a junkyard...
Feel its terror - as your heart races faster, as your breath grows short. Tightening its hold until you're unable to scream...
Obey its command - and do so willingly...for these are eleven tales by authors who have heard - and speak with - the voice of true horror.
• ix • Introduction (The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. II) • (1990) essay by Anne Devereaux Jordan
• 1 • Glory • (1986) shortstory by Ron Goulart
• 21 • Bug House • (1980) shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• 44 • Hand in Glove • (1979) novelette by Robert Aickman
• 72 • Stillborn • (1982) novelette by Mike Conner
• 97 • Balgrummo's Hell • (1967) shortstory by Russell Kirk
• 119 • The Old Darkness • (1983) shortstory by Pamela Sargent
• 137 • The Night of White Bhairab • (1984) novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 178 • Salvage Rites • (1987) shortstory by Ian Watson
• 193 • Test • (1962) shortstory by Theodore L. Thomas
• 198 • The Little Black Train • [John the Balladeer] • (1954) shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• 217 • The Autopsy • (1980) novella by Michael Shea
Hear it whispering - more urgently with every page, echoing through an abandoned churchyard, or a suburban home. Haunting the thoughts of a ruthless art-thief, or a couple trapped in a junkyard...
Feel its terror - as your heart races faster, as your breath grows short. Tightening its hold until you're unable to scream...
Obey its command - and do so willingly...for these are eleven tales by authors who have heard - and speak with - the voice of true horror.
• ix • Introduction (The Best Horror Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. II) • (1990) essay by Anne Devereaux Jordan
• 1 • Glory • (1986) shortstory by Ron Goulart
• 21 • Bug House • (1980) shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• 44 • Hand in Glove • (1979) novelette by Robert Aickman
• 72 • Stillborn • (1982) novelette by Mike Conner
• 97 • Balgrummo's Hell • (1967) shortstory by Russell Kirk
• 119 • The Old Darkness • (1983) shortstory by Pamela Sargent
• 137 • The Night of White Bhairab • (1984) novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 178 • Salvage Rites • (1987) shortstory by Ian Watson
• 193 • Test • (1962) shortstory by Theodore L. Thomas
• 198 • The Little Black Train • [John the Balladeer] • (1954) shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• 217 • The Autopsy • (1980) novella by Michael Shea
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261 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1989
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About the author
Edward L. Ferman
634 books7 followersEdward Ferman (born 1937) was an American science fiction and fantasy fiction editor and magazine publisher.
Ferman is the son of Joseph W. Ferman, and took over as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964 when Avram Davidson, due to his residence in various Latin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, Joseph Ferman was listed as editor and publisher for Edward Ferman's first two years. Edward Ferman would take on the role of publisher, as well, by 1970, as his father gradually retired. He remained as editor until 1991 when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He remained as publisher of the magazine until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000. While Ferman was the editor, many other magazines in the field began to fold or were shortlived, and his magazine, along with Analog, was one of the few which maintained a regular schedule and sustained critical appreciation for its contents.
From 1969-1970, he was the editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction's sister publication Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Together, the Fermans had also edited and published the short-lived nostalgia and humor magazine P.S. and a similarly brief run of a magazine about mysticism and other proto-New Age matters, Inner Space.
Ferman received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor three years in a row, from 1981 through 1983. F&SF had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house. He edited or co-edited several volumes of stories from F&SF and co-edited Final Stage with Barry N. Malzberg. It is probable that he also ghost-edited No Limits for or with Joseph Ferman, an anthology drawn from the pages of the first run of Venture.
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Ferman is the son of Joseph W. Ferman, and took over as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964 when Avram Davidson, due to his residence in various Latin American locales with unreliable postal delivery, could no longer practically continue editing; on the masthead, Joseph Ferman was listed as editor and publisher for Edward Ferman's first two years. Edward Ferman would take on the role of publisher, as well, by 1970, as his father gradually retired. He remained as editor until 1991 when he hired his replacement, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. He remained as publisher of the magazine until he sold it to Gordon Van Gelder in 2000. While Ferman was the editor, many other magazines in the field began to fold or were shortlived, and his magazine, along with Analog, was one of the few which maintained a regular schedule and sustained critical appreciation for its contents.
From 1969-1970, he was the editor of Fantasy & Science Fiction's sister publication Venture Science Fiction Magazine. Together, the Fermans had also edited and published the short-lived nostalgia and humor magazine P.S. and a similarly brief run of a magazine about mysticism and other proto-New Age matters, Inner Space.
Ferman received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor three years in a row, from 1981 through 1983. F&SF had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house. He edited or co-edited several volumes of stories from F&SF and co-edited Final Stage with Barry N. Malzberg. It is probable that he also ghost-edited No Limits for or with Joseph Ferman, an anthology drawn from the pages of the first run of Venture.
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July 31, 2011
With over 30 years of monthly issues to choose from its no surprise that this 2nd volume is as good as the first. All of the stories are excellent and my favorites were The Autopsy by Michael Shea, Bug House by Lisa Tuttle, and of course the Silver John story The Little Black Train by Manly Made Wellman. My only complaint is that there are aren't any more volumes.
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