Neil Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors collected thirty stories and poems. Subtitled “Short Fictions and Illusions”, it was a reworking of his 1993 collection Angels & Visitations, with the addition of several new stories, including a couple original to the volume, plus a new introduction by the author.

The Cleft and Other Odd Tales was exactly what you would expect from acclaimed cartoonist Gahan Wilson. Twenty-four stories of weirdness, including the original title story, illustrated by the author/artist.

F. Paul Wilson’s The Barrens and Others reprinted twelve stories from the late 1980s, plus a stage adaptation and a teleplay, with introductions by the author.

Published by Serpent’s Tail, Personal Demons by Christopher Fowler collected seventeen stories (eleven original), including a new “Spanky” novelette. Kathe Koja’s Extremities featured sixteen stories (two original) about human extremes.

Distributed as a promotional item through the UK’s WHSmith bookstore chain, When God Lived in Kentish Town & Others was a small-format paperback containing four stories (three original) by Michael Marshall Smith.

Bradley Denton’s One Day Closer to Death collected eight stories about the fate that awaits us all, including an original novella which was a coda to his novel Blackburn, featuring the sister of the eponymous serial killer. Published by The Book Guild, The Venetian Chair and Other Stories included twenty-two stories by Harry Turner.

Once Upon a Nightmare collected ten horror stories by Australian journalist John Michael Howson, while Bill Congreve’s Epiphanies of Blood: Tales of Desperation and Thirst contained six mutant vampire stories (three original) and was published by Australia’s MirrorDanse Books in an edition of 501 numbered copies.