The Mammoth Book of Terror

S
TEPHEN
J
ONES
lives in London. He is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Horror Writers
Association Bram Stoker Awards and three International Horror Guild Awards as well as being a fifteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award and a Hugo Award nominee. A former television
producer/director and genre movie publicist and consultant (the first three
Hellraiser
movies,
Night Life
,
Nightbreed
,
Split Second
,
Mind Ripper
,
Last Gasp
etc.), he is the co-editor of
Horror: 100
Best Books
,
The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales
,
Gaslight & Ghosts, Now We Are Sick
,
HP. Lovecraft’s Book of
Horror
,
The Anthology of
Fantasy & the Supernatural
,
Secret City: Strange Taks of London, Great Ghost Stories
and
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
,
Dark
Terrors, Dark Voices
and
Fantasy Taks
series. He has written
Creepshows: The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide, The Essential
Monster Movie Guide
,
The Illustrated
Vampire Movie Guide
,
The
Illustrated Dinosaur Movie Guide, The Illustrated Frankenstein Movie
Guide
and
The Illustrated Werewolf Movie Guide
, and compiled
The
Mammoth Book of Terror
,
The Mammoth Book of Vampires
,
The
Mammoth Book of Zombies
,
The Mammoth Book of Werewolves
,
The
Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, The
Mammoth Book ofDracula, The
Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories By Women, The Mammoth Book of New Terror
,
Shadows Over Innsmouth
,
Dark Detectives, Dancing With
the Dark,
Dark of the Night, White of the Moon, Keep Out the Night, By
Moonlight Only, Don’t Turn Out the Light, Exorcisms and Ecstasies
by Karl Edward Wagner,
The Vampire Stories of R.
Chetwynd-Hayes, Phantoms and Fiends
and
Frights and Fancies
by R. Chetwynd-Hayes,
James Herbert: By Horror Haunted, The Conan Chronicks
by Robert E. Howard (two volumes),
The
Emperor of Dreams: The
Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton Smith, Clive Barker
’
s A-Z of Horror, Clive
Barker
’
s Shadows in Eden, Clive Barker’s The Nightbreed
Chronicks
and the
Hellraiser Chronicles.
You can visit his web site at
www.herebedragons.co.uk/jones

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The Mammoth Book of How It Happened

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Constable & Robinson Ltd
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First published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2004

Collection and editorial material
copyright © Stephen Jones 2004

Interior illustrations copyright © Randy Broecker 2004

Cover art copyright © John Picacio 2004
www.johnpicacio.com

All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in
Publication Data is available from the British Library.

ISBN 1-84119-949-4
eISBN 978-1-78033-279-6

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Acknowledgments

Introduction:

Recreating the Terror

Fruiting Bodies

BRIAN LUMLEY

Needle Song

CHARLES L. GRANT

Turbo-Satan

CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Talking in the Dark

DENNIS ETCHISON

The Circus

SYDNEY J. BOUNDS

Foet

F. PAUL WILSON

The Candle in the Skull

BASIL COPPER

The Chimney

RAMSEY CAMPBELL

Dark Wings

PHYLLIS EISENSTEIN

Reflection of Evil

GRAHAM MASTERTON

Mirror of the Night

E.C. TUBB

Maypole

BRIAN MOONEY

Under the Crust

TERRY LAMSLEY

Tir Nan Og

LISA TUTTLE

A Living Legend

R. CHETWYND-HAYES

Wake-Up Call

DAVID J. SCHOW

The Fourth Seal

KARL EDWARD WAGNER

Unlocked

TANITH LEE & JOHN KAIINE

Closing Time

NEIL GAIMAN

It Was the Heat

PAT CADIGAN

Fodder

TIM LEBBON & BRIAN KEENE

Open Doors

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

Andromeda Among the Stones

CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN

Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in the Air

GLEN HIRSHBERG

Amerikanski Dead at the Moscow Morgue or: Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

KIM NEWMAN

Among the Wolves

DAVID CASE

INTRODUCTION: RECREATING THE TERROR copyright © Stephen Jones 2004.

FRUITING BODIES copyright © Brian Lumley 1988. Originally published in
Weird Tales
No. 291, Summer 1988. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agents, Dorian Literary
Agency.

NEEDLE SONG copyright © Gary Hoppenstand 1979. Originally published in
Midnight Sun
Number 5. Reprinted by permission of the author.

TURBO-SATAN copyright © Christopher Fowler 2004.

TALKING IN THE DARK copyright © Dennis Etchison 1984. Originally published in
Shadows 7.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE CIRCUS copyright © Sydney J. Bounds 1980. Originally published in
The Thirteenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories.
Reprinted by permission of the author and the
author’s agents, Cosmos Literary Agency.

FOET copyright © F. Paul Wilson 1991. Originally published in
Borderlands 2: An Anthology of Imaginative Fiction.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE CANDLE IN THE SKULL copyright © Basil Copper 1984. Originally published in
Hallowe’en Hauntings.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE CHIMNEY copyright © Stuart David Schiff 1977. Originally published in
Whispers: An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

DARK WINGS copyright © Phyllis Eisenstein 1982. Originally published in
Shadows 5.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

REFLECTION OF EVIL copyright © Graham Masterton 2004. Originally published in an abridged version as “Half-Sick of Shadows” on
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/vampires
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

MIRROR OF THE NIGHT copyright © E.C. Tubb 1988. Originally published in
Fantasy Annual #2.
Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Cosmos Literary
Agency.

MAYPOLE copyright © Brian Mooney 2004.

UNDER THE CRUST copyright © Terry Lamsley 1993. Originally published in
Under the Crust.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

TIR NAN OG copyright © Lisa Tuttle 1999. Originally published in
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
, January 1999. Reprinted by permission of the author.

A LIVING LEGEND copyright © R. Chetwynd-Hayes 1982. Originally published in
Tales from Beyond.
Reprinted by permission of the author’s Estate.