Shadows / Edited by Charles L. Grant

A stark and simple cover image introduces Shadows, first in the long-running quiet horror/dark fantasy anthology series put together by quiet-horror maestro Charles L. Grant. At this period in the 1970s horror fiction had apparently not yet quite found its full and singular identity in the publishing world; Grant solicited tales by fantasy and science fiction writers – and in at least one case, crime writers – to fill out this original volume. The anthology itself won the 1979 World Fantasy Award, as the Bram Stoker Award was still years off; and the lead story, (the maddeningly elusive) “Naples” by SF writer Avram Davidson, won Best Short Fiction as well.

Contents:
Naples by Avram Davidson, The Little Voice by Ramsey Campbell, Butcher’s Thumb by William Jon Watkins, Where All the Songs Are Sad” by Thomas F. Monteleone, Splinters by R. A. Lafferty, Picture by Robert Bloch, The Nighthawk by Dennis Etchison, Dead Letters by Ramsey Campbell, A Certain Slant of Light by Raylyn Moore, Deathlove by Bill Pronzini, Mory by Michael Bishop, Where Spirits Gat Them Home by John Crowley, Nona  by Stephen King