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