Hugo Award WinnerHOMer Award NomineeThe field of advanced mathematic imaging has taken a lethal turn in the form of the BLIT. Named after the now-deceased mathematician Vernon Berryman, the Berryman Logical Imaging Technique can create images that crash the human brain in the same way a computer crashes from a sufficiently complex query. Terrorists have killed millions using posters, graffiti—and television. Many parents have had secret biochips implanted in the optic nerves of their children to darken the world outside of their schools and homes. Now, with a mild-dose BLIT found in a copy machine, the secret student group known as the Shudder Club holds contests to see who can stare at it the longest and prove worthy of their tenet: That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.

An anthology of stories edited by Mike AshleyMarianne is an important fictional formulation of Sand's thinking on the role of women and the nature of democracy. This edition includes a long biographical preface which quotes extensively from her correspondences.

Welcome To The Frightmare Lands…Imagination can be a terrible revenge when a storybook character takes on a life of his own….Trick or treat suddenly takes on a whole new meaning for one doctor who has long been exercising his powers over life and death….When two boys' existences and identities somehow become intertwined, is one the dreamer and the other a dream?She thought she'd found the ideal apartment until it began to take on an eerie life of its own….These are just a few of the twenty-six dwelling places of terror you'll visit in…

“…THE JUICIEST BLOODFEST, THE MOST IRONIC CONTE CRUEL, THE SUBTLEST EVOCATION OF WISPY HORROR.”—Washington Post Book WorldReturn, if you dare, to the dark realms of terror with intrepid guide Karl Edward Wagner as he once again seeks out the most fear-inspiring tales of the year. Cower in horror as Jack the Ripper reaches out from the grave to take bloody vengeance on a rock band… even as a “retired” serial killer experiences the perfect end to a perfect life… while an injured woman receives a blood transfusion only to find she has lost control of her will… and a garbage dump spawns a malignant new breed of life—or death…Join Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell, Wayne Allen Sallee, T.E.D. Klein, Lisa Tuttle, and their fellow masterminds of the macabre on this year’s unforgettable, chill-packed journey into the heart of the horrific!OPEN THE CREAKING DOOR OF TERROR AND ENTER A WORLD WHERE FEAR IS YOUR ONLY COMPANION…A kid’s camping supplies turn out to be not quite what the catalog advertised…A pulp writer’s imagination really gets the better of him…A suburban dog-run turns out to be an exercise in terror…A juror’s identification with a convicted murderer becomes more than simple sympathy…TRAVEL INTO REALMS WHERE NIGHTMARES LURK AT EVERY CORNER. THE ONLY TOUR-GUIDE YOU’LL NEED IS…THE YEAR’S BEST HORROR: XXII