Fantasy Stories. In Will Shetterly's Splatter, Killers Decide To Show A Novelist How It's Really Done, Karen Haber's A Bone Dry Place Is Set In A Suicide-prevention Clinic, And In John Ford's Chain Home, Low A Sleeping Virus Strikes A Group Of Wartime Pilots. Frontispiece : Death / Clive Barker -- Preface / Frank Mcconnell -- Masquerade And High Water / Colin Greenland -- Chain Home, Low / John M. Ford -- Stronger Than Desire / Lisa Goldstein -- Each Damp Thing / Barbara Hambly -- The Birth Day / B.w. Clough -- Splatter / Will Shetterly -- Seven Nights In Slumberland / George Alec Effinger -- Escape Artist / Caitlín R. Kiernan -- An Extra Smidgen Of Eternity / Robert Rodi -- The Writer's Child / Tad Williams -- Endless Sestina / Lawrence Schimel -- The Gate Of Gold / Mark Kreighbaum -- A Bone Dry Place / Karen Haber -- The Witch's Heart / Delia Sherman -- The Mender Of Broken Dreams / Nancy A. Collins -- Ain't You 'most Done? / Gene Wolfe -- Volóság And Élet / Steven Brust -- Stopp't-clock Yard / Susanna Clarke -- Afterword : Death / Tori Amos -- Biographical Notes. Edited By Neil Gaiman And Edward E. Kramer. Short Stories Based On The Comic Book Series The Sandman.