An anthology of short horror stories originally published in 1997, featuring twenty tales of supernatural fear and psychological dread by a variety of authors, including Steven Laws, Ramsey Campbell, and Gwyneth Jones.

Acknowledgements -- The editor / Introduction: Horror in 1997 -- David J. Schow / Dying words -- Conrad Williams / The windmill -- John Burke / The right ending -- Simon Clark / Swallowing a dirty seed -- Pad Cadigan / This is your life (repressed memory remix -- Christopher Fowler / Christmas forever -- Yvonne Navarro / Four famines ago -- Stephen Laws / The crawl -- David Langford / Serpent eggs -- Dennis Etchison / Now one you know -- Brian Hodge / The dripping of sundered wineskins -- Thomas Ligotti / The bells will sound forever -- Ramsey Campbell / The word -- Andy Duncan / The map of the homes of the stars -- Caitlin R. Kiernan / Emptiness spoke eloquent -- Michael Marshall Smith / Save as... -- Kim Newman / Coppola's dracula -- Gwyneth Jones / Grazing the long acre -- Douglas E. Winter / The zombies of Madison County -- Stephen Jones & Kim Newman / Necrology: 1997.