Stephen Jones
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Vol 15
In memory of Hugh B. Cave (1910–2004)
Goodbye old friend.
I would like to thank David Barraclough, Kim Newman, Hugh Lamb, Nick Austin, Pete Duncan, Ellen Datlow, Gordon Van Gelder, Barbara Roden, Rodger Turner and Wayne MacLaurin (sfsite.com), David J. Schow, Dennis Etchison, Mandy Slater,Brian Mooney, Ray Russell, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Dalby, Sara and Randy Broecker, Robert T. Garcia, Andrew I. Porter, Kelly Link, Peter Coleborn, Douglas E. Winter, Basil Copper, Sue and Lou Irmo, Harris M. Lentz III, Andy Cox, Robert Morgan and David Pringle for all their help and support. Special thanks are also due to Locus, Interzone, Classic Images, Variety and all the other sources that were used for reference in the Introduction and the Necrology.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2003 copyright © Stephen Jones 2004.
FEAR THE DEAD copyright © Ramsey Campbell 2003. Originally published in The Fear Within. Reprinted by permission of the author.
THE HANGED MAN OF OZ copyright © Steve Nagy 2003. Originally published in Gathering the Bones. Reprinted by permission of the author.
MARA copyright © Michael Chislett 2003. Originally published in Conventional Vampires. Reprinted by permission of the author.
CELL CALL copyright © Marc Laidlaw 2003. Originally published in By Moonlight Only. Reprinted by permission of the author.
IN THE TUNNELS copyright © Pauline E. Dungate 2003. Originally published in Beneath the Ground. Reprinted by permission of the author.
HUNGER: A CONFESSION copyright © Spilogale, Inc. 2003. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.