The Year's Best Horror Stories 19

TERROR MORE POWERFUL THAN DEATH— She had faced death many times in her job on a police SWAT team—but could she survive an enemy able to attack not just her body but her mind? A late-night auto accident introduced a judge to the Game the truckers play— a nationwide tournament in which anyone could become either pawn or prize. . . . Dave, the “Lord of the Creepies,” was the live voice on a telephone horror call-in service, a specialist in giving other people nightmares—until he got a call from one very frightened little boy. . . . Meet these and other innocents who have unwittingly stumbled into the terror zone in— THE YEAR’S BEST HORROR STORIES: XIX