Stephen Mark Rainey

Contains: [Autopsy room four]( / Stephen King -- Haunted / Charles Grant -- Out there in the darkness / Ed Gorman -- Please help me / Richard Christian Matheson -- The lesser of two evils / Denise M. Bruchman -- Point of intersection / Dominick Cancilla -- Doctor, lawyer, Kansas City Chief / Brent Monahan -- Grandpa's head / Lawrence Watt-Evans -- Lonelyhearts / Esther M. Friesner -- Lighting the corpses / Del Stone Jr. -- Echoes / Cindie Geddes -- Lifeline / Yvonne Navarro -- Blameless / David Niall Wilson -- Deep down there / Clark Perry -- Knacker man / Richard Parks -- So you wann be a hitman / Gary Jonas -- The rug / Edo van Belkom -- Interview with a psycho / Billie Sue Mosiman -- Icewall / William D. Gagliani -- A Southern night / Jane Yolen -- The forgiven / Stephen M. Rainey -- Safe / Gary A. Braunbeck.

During the American offensive against the Japanese in the South Pacific, Commander Drew McLachlan discovers evidence of past habitation by unknown natives--natives that resemble no known living race. As the tension on the island mounts, McLachlan is forced to fight on two fronts: against their known enemy, the Japanese, and an unknown, predatory force that leaves mutilated victims as the only evidence of its presence.