Ужасы: Последний пир Арлекина

Ночь была тихой. Передо мной тянулось пустое поле, стояла заброшенная хижина. Потом из леса раздался унылый крик козодоя и горестный ответ другого. Я, спотыкаясь, бросилась к рухнувшему дереву и, стоя на коленях среди его корней и анемонов, плакала над ушедшими в землю детьми.

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THE FIRST TIME Copyright © 1990 by K. W. Jeter. Originally published in Alien Sex. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.

A SHORT GUIDE TO THE CITY Copyright © 1990 by The Seafront Corporation. Originally published in Houses Without Doors. Reprinted by permission of the author.

STEPHEN Copyright © 1990 by Elizabeth Massie. Originally published in Borderlands. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE DEAD LOVE YOU Copyright © 1990 by Jonathan Carroll. Originally published in Omni

Vol. 13, No. 3, December 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.

JANE DOE #112 Copyright © 1990 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine No. 576, December 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

SHOCK RADIO Copyright © 1990 by Ray Garton. Originally published in Methods of Madness. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE MAN WHO DREW CATS Copyright © 1990 by Michael Marshall Smith. Originally published in Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE CO-OP Copyright © 1990 by Melanie Tem. Originally published in Women of Darkness II. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE LAST FEAST OF HARLEQUIN Copyright © 1990 by Thomas Ligotti. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction No. 467, April 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

NEGATIVES Copyright © 1990 by Nicholas Royle. Originally published in Interzone

No. 35, May 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

1/72ND SCALE Copyright © 1990 by Terminus Publishing Co., Inc. Originally published in Weird Tales No. 298, Fall 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

CEDAR LANE Copyright © 1990 by Karl Edward Wagner. Originally published in Walls of Fear. Reprinted by permission of the author.

AT A WINDOW FACING WEST Copyright © 1990 by Kim Antieau. Originally published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mid-December 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

INSIDE THE WALLED CITY Copyright © 1990 by Garry Kilworth. Originally published in Walls of Fear. Reprinted by permission of the author.

ON THE WING (Originally published as «A la Volette» in Breves No. 33/34). English version copyright © 1990 by Jean-Daniel Breque and Nicholas Royle. First published in Fantasy Tales

No. 5, Autumn 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

FIREBIRD Copyright © 1990 by J. L. Comeau. Originally published in The Women Who Walk Through Fire. Reprinted by permission of the author.

INCIDENT ON A RAINY NIGHT IN BEVERLY HILLS Copyright © 1990 by David J. Schow. Originally published in Seeing Red. Reprinted by permission of the author.

HIS MOUTH WILL TASTE OF WORMWOOD Copyright © 1990 by Poppy Z. Brite. Originally published in Borderlands. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE ORIGINAL DR SHADE Copyright © 1990 by Kim Newman. Originally published in Interzone No. 36, June 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

MADGE Copyright © 1990 by D. F. Lewis. Originally published in Back Brain Recluse No. 15, Spring 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

ALIVE IN VENICE Copyright © 1990 by Cherry Wilder. Originally published in Dark Voices 2: The Pan Book of Horror.

Reprinted by permission of the author.

DIVERTIMENTO Copyright © 1989 by Gregory Frost. Originally published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, December 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.

PELTS Copyright © 1990 by F. Paul Wilson. Originally published in Pelts. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THOSE OF RHENEA Copyright © 1990 by David Sutton. Originally published in Skeleton Crew, November 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

LORD OF THE LAND Copyright © 1990 by Gene Wolfe. Originally published in Lovecraft’s Legacy. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agent.

AQUARIUM Copyright © 1990 by Steve Rasnic Tem. Originally published in The Seaharp Hotel. Reprinted by permission of the author.

MISTER ICE COLD Copyright © 1990 by Gahan Wilson. Originally published in Omni Vol. 12, No. 7, April 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

ON THE TOWN ROUTE Copyright © 1989 by Elizabeth Hand. Originally published in Pulphonse Issue Five, Fall 1989. Reprinted by permission of the author.