Fiction:
The Emerald Scarab..........Keith Taylor
     An eerie tale of old Egypt and of the horror that came from a pharaoh's heart!
     1st line: The Archpriest Kamose at the best of times had an austere, sardonic presence. This was not the best of times.
A Place to Begin..........Richard Parks
     She had to learn all she could from the sorceress.
     1st line: Long ago, when the wind spoke with a voice you could understand, in a village by the sea there lived a poor girl of almost infinite potential.
Songs..........Sarah A. Hoyt
     Cyanide or hemlock? If only it were that simple.
     1st line: Phil rode the accelerator the two hours from Portland airport to the coast, fuming on single-lane stretches behind eighteen wheelers, and speeding up around them as soon as opportunity offered.
To Others We Know Not Of..........Kate Riedel
     Pain soaks into the pavement like blood
     1st line: What do you say when the best lay you ever had in your life turns up on your doorstep at three in the morning, twenty-some years after he sent you the Dear Jane letter?
Unicorn Visions..........Jennifer Busick
     Had it come to protect her... or not?
     1st line: Every time I thought I had my life back together, it fell apart again.

Verse:
Cry Werewolf..........Kelly McCullough
House..........Richard William Pearce
Illustrated Limerick..........George Barr
The Lexicographer's Love Song..........Ian Watson
They Never Found the Head..........Darrell Schweitzer

Articles:
The Classic Horrors: Haggopian..........Allen Koszowski
Lovecraft and My Dad..........Gary J. Weir
The Eyrie
Shadowings..........Douglas E. Winter

Novelette:
Graveyard..........Michael Mayhew [Harvest Tales & Midnight Revels, ed. Michael Mayhew, Bald Mountain Books, 1998]
     1st line: "Dad, come look! A graveyard!"

Fiction:
Doctor Kitty Solves All Your Love Problems..........Carrie Vaughn
     1st line: "Next caller, hello. You're on the air."  "It--it's my girlfriend. She won't bite me."
La Vampiresse..........Tanith Lee [Interzone Apr, 2000]
     1st line: Going up in the elevator, he felt a wave of depression so intense at what he was about to do, that he almost rushed out at another floor. But then what would he see?
My Case for Retributive Action..........Thomas Ligotti
     1st line: It was my first day working as a processor of forms in a storefront office. I had already received instructions regarding my tasks, which consisted entirely of processing various forms for the Quine Organization, a company whose interests and activities penetrate into every enterprise, both public and private, on this side of the border.
Valley of the Shadows..........Stephen Dedman
     1st line: The hermit was dozing, but woke as soon as he heard hoofbeats on the path through the ravine.

Verse:
Daughter and Moon..........Tim Pratt
The Deed of Snigli..........Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
Evil Is Simple..........Ann K. Schwader
Illustrated Limericks..........George Barr
True Love..........Ian Watson
What a Friend We Have in Dagon..........Darrell Schweitzer

Articles:
The Den..........S. T. Joshi
The Eyrie

Fiction:
From Out of the Crocodile's Mouth..........Darrell Schweitzer
     1st line:  The birds high above might have noticed him, but he was not prey, and so they continued circling in the evening air….but the short, slight figure kept on walking….he held a living flame cupped in his outstretched, scarred right hand….Here on the cold, black water, as whispering, pleading, jabbering ghosts gathered around him, he waited for a time, until he saw a dark, lumbering shape rise up a shallow pool.
The Gravedigger's Apprentice..........Alvin Helms
     1st line:  "Simon! Watch where you're throwing that dirt!"
Our Temporary Supervisor..........Thomas Ligotti
     1st line:  I have sent this manuscript to your publication across the border, assuming that it ever arrives there, because I believe that the matters described in this personal anecdote have implications that should concern even those outside my homeland and beyond the influence, as far as I know, of the Quine Organization.
Where All Things Perish..........Tanith Lee
     1st line: It was glimpsing Polleto again, between trains, at that hotel in Vymart, which made me remember. Which, in its way, is quite curious, for how ever could I have forgotten such a thing? So impossible and terrible a thing. And yet, the human mind is a strange mechanism, and the human heart far stranger.
The Wizard of Ashes and Rain..........David Sandner
     1st line: Crunching on her skateboard, Sarah zoomed downhill into a white fog rolling into the City off the Pacific and the San Francisco Bay.

Verse:
Illustrated Limerick..........George Barr
Sailing on the Brine..........Sally Parker

Articles:
The Classic Horrors: Caterpillers illus...........Allen Koszowski [Weird Tales Spr, 2001]
The Den..........John Gregory Betancourt
The Eyrie

Fiction:
The Case that Never Was..........David Langford
     1st line:  "There are some things," old Hyphen-Jones complained, "that it should be impossible to forget."
Devi Darshan..........Ashok Banker
     1st line: He took a wrong turn on P.M. Road and found himself face to face with it.  It was a small temple. A shrine really.
The Dome..........Charles L. Harness
     1st line: Lilla had had a terrible crush on the great architect ever since she could remember, but he had never paid her the slightest attention.
Lamia..........Keith Taylor
     1st line: Mertseger the lamia had partly abandoned the shape of a mortal woman.
Winter Warfareland..........Eric Wagner
     1st line:  It was a cold day, with snow driving down at crazy angles form a chill wind, but there were crowds of civilians out nonetheless.

Verse:
Illustrated Limericks..........George Barr

Features:
The Classic Horrors: The Place Called Dagon illus...........Allen Koszowski 
The Den..........S. T. Joshi
The Eyrie