Taverns of the Dead

Atrist: Alan M. Clark
Introduction by F. Paul Wilson
Foreword by Kealan Patrick Burke

Taverns are timeless places, as familiar and welcome as the spirits that rest themselves atop the bar. Through the ages, in times of war, of famine, of love and death, they have stood in silence, radiating the promise of a soporific sojourn from the horrors and the worries of the outside world. We are drawn to them by this promise, by the notion that we may be protected and comforted by the light, the animated chatter and the warmth inside those smeared glasses. When we go there, it is with no fear at all.

But taverns can be deadly places, where ghosts walk, the shadows talk and not everyone is your friend.

With Taverns of the Dead, editor Kealan Patrick Burke has reserved a table and gathered together some of the finest writers in modern horror and dark fantasy to share their most terrifying bar stories with you, the unsuspecting patron.

Pull up a chair and prepare to be regaled by tales of monsters, madness, ghosts and gore, in a place we know all too well...

Table of Contents:

• "Introduction" by F. Paul Wilson
• "Foreword" by Kealan Patrick Burke
• "The Lingering Scent of Apples" by P.D. Cacek
• "The Winner" by Ramsey Campbell
• "The Souls of Drowning Mountain" by Jack Cady
• "Kristine's Kwiet Korner" by Melanie Tem
• "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" by Neil Gaiman
• "Gas Station Carnivals" by Thomas Ligotti
• "Bucket of Blood" by Norman Partridge
• "The King of Rotten Wood" by Gary A. Braunbeck
• "Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Ever Told" by Peter Crowther
• "Des Lors" by Roberta Lannes
• "At Home In the Pubs of Old London" by Christopher Fowler
• "Spirited" by Steve Rasnic Tem
• "Times of Atonement" Yvonne Navarro
• "That Was Radio Clash" by Charles de Lint
• "Friday Night at the Wicked Swan" by Charles L. Grant
• "Bar Talk" by Peter Straub
• "Time Was" by David Morrell
• "Shades of the Past" by C. Bruce Hunter
• "Luke: Homeward Angel" by Chaz Brenchley
• "The Last Good Times" by Tim Lebbon
• "Two In the Eyes" by Tom Piccirilli
• "Welcome to the Masque" by Jeff VanderMeer
• "The Order of Nature" by Edward Lee
• "A Fine and Private Place" by Thomas F. Monteleone
• "The Family Room" by Nicholas Royle
• "The Smoke From Mooney's Pub" by Chet Williamson
• "The Snug" by Terry Lamsley

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