"A staggering thirty-eight-course banquet of literary mania and mayhem, served up by some of the most amazingly astute, deeply disturbing, immensely entertaining chroniclers of crazy ever to grace the printed page"--P. [4] of cover.

Classical scenes of farewell /Jim Shepard -- Hop-frog / Edgar Allan Poe -- Marmalade wine / Joan Aiken -- Most dangerous game / Richard Connell -- Small assassin / Ray Bradbury -- Lucy comes to stay / Robert Bloch -- Marla's eyes / Ed Kurtz -- Liar / Laura Lee Bahr -- Paperhanger / William Gay -- Red dragon / Thomas Harris -- Exit at Roledo Blade Boulevard / Jack Ketchum -- Incident on and off a mountain road / Joe R. Lansdale -- Murder for beginners / Mercedes M. Yardley -- Jesse / Steve Rasnic Tem -- In for a penny / Lawrence Block -- Now hold still / David J. Schow -- Feminine endings / Neil Gaiman -- Going solo / Leah Mann -- Death-in-life love song / Kevin L. Donihe -- Ralph and Jerry / Leslianne Wilder -- And what did you see in the world? / Norman Partridge -- Life with father / Bentley Little -- Shallow end of the pool / Adam-Troy Castro -- Mommy pick me up at day care / John Gorumba -- When the zoos close down, they'll come for us / Violet Lavoit -- All through the house / Christopher Coake -- Intruder / John Boden -- Straycation / Scot Bradley and Peter Giglio -- Life coach / Cody Goodfellow -- Righteous / Weston Ochse -- Meaning of life / Amelia Beamer -- Damaged goods / Elizabeth Massie -- Willow tests well / Nick Mamatas -- Serenity now / Simon McCaffery -- Mannerly man / Mehitobel Wilson -- Sensible Violence / Brian Hodge -- Bucky goes to church / Robert Devereaux -- At eventide / Kathe Koja.