The Year's Best Horror Stories 5 (1977) edited by Gerald Page
“Funny, but not laughing-at funny.”
Readers unfamiliar with The Year's Best Horror Stories 5 may prefer to read these notes only after reading the anthology.
“The Service” by Jerry Sohl
A photographer, on the verge of death, is visited by a mysterious figure who offers him a reunion with his deceased first love.
“Long Hollow Swamp” by Joseph Payne Brennan
I think that very probably the most desolate region in New England lies northwest of Colbury. As you surmount the inhospitable hills, you drive between ragged meadows, cheerless and not at all picturesque. Tangled, wind-twisted scrub clings to barren ridges. At intervals long stretches of swamp lie motionless and forbidding, screened by acres of reeds and blackthorn bush.
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