Best New Horror Four
	
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			 Stephen Jones Ramsey Campbell (Editor) 
			 
			Format: Hardcover, 512pp. 
			Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers 
			Pub. Date: October 1993 
			 
			 
			ISBN #0786700041
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		| One of the anticipated events in the horror-publishing year is the annual appearance
			of the Carroll & Graf "New Horror" anthology. The current installment contains 26 articles and stories.
			Putting Jones and Campbell at the helm as editors has proved to be a successful formula, merging the perceptions
			and skills of a master editor (Jones) and a master storyteller (Campbell). Any collection-development librarian
			wanting to stay informed as to what's going on in the horror genre needs to read the 15-page introduction carefully.
			It's the most concise and current overview of the field anywhere in print and a highly useful road map for getting
			one's bearings within one of the most fragmented genres in fiction. The anthology has examples of or discourse
			on horror subspecialties that include psychological horror (now in vogue), splatterpunk, gothic tales, Lovecraftian
			stories, and, of course, vampire stories. The book's necrology remains a valuable resource for noting the passing
			of writers, artists, and filmmakers who have helped define the field. | 
	
	
		| Includes Clive's short story, "The Departed" - originally printed in
			the New York Times on Halloween 1992 as "Hermione And The Moon" (they changed the name because they thought
			the name "The Departed" was too depressing) |