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DEATH There are many ways to die. All of them unpleasant. You can be devoured, cursed, poisoned, bedeviled, tortured, drugged, transformed. Which one would you prefer? Not that you have a choice... Introduction / Stuart David Schiff -- Two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany -- Deathtracks / Dennis Etchison -- Always together / Hugh B. Cave -- Toilet paper run / Juleen Brantingham -- The green parrot / Joseph Payne Brennan -- Fragment from a charred diary / Davis Grubb -- The scarf / Bernice Balfour -- Sentences / Richard Christian Matheson -- Prickly / David Riley -- The kennel / Maurice Level -- Onawa / Alan Ryan -- Telephone booth / Wade Kenny -- Straw goat / Ken Wisman -- Horrible imaginings / Fritz Leiber -- The blind spot / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- The dust / Al Sarrantonio -- It grows on you / Stephen King -- The copper bowl / Captain George Fielding Eliot