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Description of  The Year's Best Horror Stories #2

The Year’s Best Horror Stories was a series of annual anthologies published by DAW Books in the U.S.from 1972 to 1994 under the successive editorships of Richard Davis from 1972 to 1975 (after a 1971-1973 series published by Sphere Books in the U.K. the first volumes had the same contents, the U.S. second volume in 1974 drew stories from the second and third U.K. volumes, and the 1975 U.S. third volume was very different from the U.K's. the U.S. third volume was published as a one-shot volume in the U.K. by Orbit Books in 1976), and of 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 function for the science fiction and fantasy fields. Stories: Foreword by Christopher Lee Thirst (1972), by Gerald W. Page David's Worm (1971), by Brian Lumley The Price of a Demon (1972), by Gary Brandner The Knocker at the Portico (1971), by Basil Copper The Throwaway Man (1970), by Stepan Chapman [as by Steve Chapman ] The Woman With the Mauve Face (1972), by Rosemary Timperley The Shadows of the Living (1970), by Ronald Blythe The Animal Fair (1971), by Robert Bloch Napier Court (1971), by Ramsey Campbell Haunts of the Very Rich (1971) by T. K. Brown, III