Description:Charles L. Grant - Introduction
Davis Grubb - The Brown Recluse
Bruce Frances - To See You With, My Dear
Ray Russell - Avenging Angel
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Ghost Who Limped
Juleen Brantingham - Janey's Smile
Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini - Opening A Vein
William F. Nolan - The Partnership
Pat Murphey - Wish Hound
Peter D. Pautz - Ant
Alan Ryan - Tell Mommy What Happened
Steve Rasnic Tem - At The Bureau
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Cabin 33
Not-so-'Quiet Horror' collection, includes:
Davis Grubb - The Brown Recluse:
Every year the six-strong West Virginia Chapter of the Baker Street
Irregulars award a beautiful Persian Slipper to the member who solves a
crime for which the wrong person has been prosecuted. Much to one-legged
spinster Ms. Ellen Lathrop's consternation, Charles Gribble, the town
banker, local pillar of society and the only lover she ever had, has
retained the award since it's inception - he must be in cahoots with
Sheriff Voitle or something. Ms. Lathrop detests Gribble, or the
"brown recluse" as she thinks of him after the area's most venomous
spider, not least because he called her a "cripple" during their final
row all those years ago. That slipper is rightfully hers and she must
win it to grace her shapely right foot, and not just for a year but in
perpetuary! But the only way to do that is to solve a murder - and Glory
is such a trouble-free community. Then Gribble's employee Jim