This contains: Trill Coster's Burden by Manly Wade Wellman; Undertow by Karl Edward Wagner; The Elcar Special by Carl Jacobi; Lex Talionis by Russell Kirk; Marianne by Joseph Payne Brennan; Ghost of a Chance by Ray Russell; Berryhill by R. A. Lafferty; The King's Shadow Has No Limits by Avram Davidson; Conversation Piece by Richard Christian Matheson; The Stormsong Runner by Jack L. Chalker; They Will Not Hush by James Sallis and David Lunde; From the Lower Deep by Hugh B. Cave; The Fourth Musketeer by Charles L. Grant; The Box by Lee Weinstein; We Have All Been Here Before by Dennis Etchison; Archie and the Scylla of Hades Hole by Ken Wisman; Conversation Piece by Ward Moore; The Bait by Fritz Leiber; Above the World by Ramsey Campbell; The Red Leer by David Drake; and At the Bottom of the Garden by David Campton.