SOLVED. Anthology of stories about Witches and Warlocks, one story about an undead child /s

[Chris]

I read an anthology with a title, I think is "Witches and Warlocks", in the early 2000s. I remember the book was huge and the stories where definitely for adults. The only two stories I can remember are:

1. Woman has a really young daughter. Daughter dies and somehow the mom brings her back. But the girl is not "right" and starts to decay ala the guys friend in American Werewolf. I remember it being really gross/disturbing at times.

2. Witches and warlocks are living in a trailer park. An man tells an older woman she is "older then dirt". That is literally all I can remember.

[[deleted user]]

I have no idea if your story is in here:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Here is a list of the short stories in it: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?4...

[Tab]

There is The Penguin Book of Witches & Warlocks: Tales of Black Magic, Old & New

Here is a list of the contents. I put it behind a spoiler b/c the list is so long. (view spoiler)[The witch / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Moment of truth / Gerry Levinson -- The magic shop / H.G. Wells-- Fat chance / Thomas D. Sadler -- The traveler / Ray Bradbury-- Between the minute and the hour / A.M. Burrage-- Wizard crystal / Daniel Pinkwater -- Perfidious amber / Tanith Lee -- St. John's Eve / Nikolai Gogol -- Dark music / Jack Snow -- The magic egg / Frank R. Stockton -- The curse of the wandering gypsy / Patricia Mullen -- The sorcerers / W.B. Yeats -- Sanquinarius / Ray Russell -- Vasilisa and the witch : a Russian folktale / English adaptation Marvin Kaye -- The mirror / Margaret Mayo McGlynn -- The tiger's eye / L. Frank Baum -- A smell of sulphur / Marvin Kaye -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Chaney legacy / Robert Bloch -- Lorelei / Wilhelm Ruland -- Seeing them / Darrell Schweitzer -- Doll-baby / C.H. Sherman -- The unholy compact abjured / Charles Pigault-Lebrun -- General Andrew Jackson and the bell witch / M.V. Ingram -- The party animal / Alvin Vogel -- The horned women / Lady Wilde -- The fisherman and his soul / Oscar Wilde -- The up-to-date sorcerer / Isaac Asimov -- Emma's daughter / Alan Rodgers -- Light-headed / John Tunney -- The enchanter Faustus and Queen Elizabeth / Anonymous -- Ever the faith endures / Manly Wade Wellman -- The old man of visions / Algernon Blackwood -- Too far / Fredric Brown -- Doctor Faustus journeys to hell / Anonymous ; English adaptation by Marvin Kaye -- The witch is dead / Edward D. Hoch -- Witches' hollow / H.P. Lovecraft ; Completed by August Derleth -- The song of the morrow / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Little old Miss Macbeth / Fritz Leiber, Jr. -- The Mainz psalter/ Jean Ray. (hide spoiler)]

Do you remember anything about the cover?

[[deleted user]]

Tab wrote: "There is The Penguin Book of Witches & Warlocks: Tales of Black Magic, Old & New
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Nice job Tab, I bet you found it. Reading the first reviewers desc, they seem to describe the decaying baby/girl.

p.s. Chris, loved the American Werewolf reference. I had forgotten about his brother decaying.

[Chris]

Yes thats it! Thank you!