These twenty stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the non-living.<br/><br/>"Jerusalem's Lot" Previously unpublished<br/>"Graveyard Shift" October 1970 issue of Cavalier<br/>"Night Surf" Spring 1969 issue of Ubris<br/>"I Am the Doorway" March 1971 issue of Cavalier<br/>"The Mangler" December 1972 issue of Cavalier<br/>"The Boogeyman" March 1973 issue of Cavalier<br/>"Gray Matter" October 1973 issue of Cavalier<br/>"Battleground" September 1972 issue of Cavalier<br/>"Trucks" June 1973 issue of Cavalier<br/>"Sometimes They Come Back" March 1974 issue of Cavalier<br/>"Strawberry Spring" Fall 1968 issue of Ubris<br/>"The Ledge" July 1976 issue of Penthouse<br/>"The Lawnmower Man" May 1975 issue of Cavalier<br/>"Quitters, Inc." Previously unpublished<br/>"I Know What You Need" September 1976 issue of Cosmopolitan<br/>"Children of the Corn" March 1977 issue of Penthouse<br/>"The Last Rung on the Ladder" Previously unpublished<br/>"The Man Who Loved Flowers" August 1977 issue of Gallery<br/>"One for the Road" March/April 1977 issue of Maine<br/>"The Woman in the Room" Previously unpublished