Zebra Books, 1979. Anthology of original science fiction stories. Introduction by the editor and these stories: "When Dark Descends" by Charles L. Grant and Thomas F. Monteleone; "The Word" by Gregory Long; "St. Poleander's Eve" by R. A. Lafferty; "Wires" by Karl Hansen; "Local Champ" by Spider Robinson; "Fugitive Colors" by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; "Near of Kin" by Octavia E. Butler; "Vibrations" by Robert Thurston; "Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory" by Orson Scott Card; "Good Night, Thou Child of My Heart" by Alan Ryan.
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