The Year's Best Horror Stories VIII edited by Karl Edward Wagner

The Year’s Best Horror Stories was a series of annual anthologies published by DAW Books from 1971 to 1994 under the successive editorships of Richard Davis from 1971 to 1973, and, after a two-year hiatus, Gerald W. Page from 1976 to 1979, and Karl Edward Wagner from 1980 to 1994. The series was discontinued after Wagner's death. It was a companion to DAW’s The Annual World’s Best SF and The Year's Best Fantasy Stories, which performed a similar office for the science fiction and fantasy genres.

• The Dead Line by Dennis Etchison
• To Wake the Dead by Ramsey Campbell
• In the Fourth Year of the War by Harlan Ellison
• From the Lower Deep by Hugh B. Cave
• The Baby-Sitter by Davis Grubb
• The Well at the Half Cat by John Tibbetts
• My Beautiful Darkling by Eddy C. Bertin
• A Serious Call by George Hay
• Sheets by Alan Ryan
• Billy Wolfe’s Riding Spirit by Kevin A. Lyons
• Lex Talionis by Russell Kirk
• Entombed by Robert Keefe
• A Fly One by Steve Sneyd
• Needle Song by Charles L. Grant
• All the Birds Come Home to Roost by Harlan Ellison
• The Devil Behind You by Richard A. Moore