Robert Shearman

When her mother uproots them again to another home and takes a job as housekeeper, ten-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, and a timid girl.

"A woman rejects her husband's heart - and gives it back to him, still beating, in a plastic box. A little boy betrays his father to the harsh mercies of Santa Claus. A widower suspects his dead wife's face is growing over his own. A man goes to Hell, and finds he's roommate to the ghost of Hitler's pet dog. Giant spiders, killer angels, ghost cat photography, and the haunted house right at the centre of the Garden of Eden. Deliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader's Prize. Remember why you fear me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before"--P. of cover.

When a horrific and inexplicable death occurs at Space World, a new theme park on Hampstead Heath, UNIT is called in to investigate. The Doctor is highly suspicious. Just who controls the Parakon Corporation, the shadowy organisation behind the running of the park? What is "Experienced Reality" and what are the limits of its awesome powers?

Something wicked this way comes / Ray Bradbury -- A flat patch of grass / Muriel Gray -- Some children wander by mistake / John Connolly -- Spurs (aka freaks) / Tod Robbins -- Tiger, tiger / Rio Youers -- Blind voices / Tom Reamy -- Mister Magister / Thomas F. Monteleone -- Twittering from the circus of the dead / Joe Hill -- The Pilo Family Circus / Will Elliott -- Face of the circus / Lou Morgan -- Escardy Gap / Peter Crowther & / James Lovegrove -- The circus of Dr Lao / Charles Finney -- In the forest of the night / Paul Finch -- All the clowns of Clowntown / Andrew McKiernan -- Nine letters about spit / Robert Shearman -- To run away and join the circus / Alison Littlewood.