This was the much-delayed fifth HWA anthology -- the first four were, in order, Under the Fang, edited by Robert McCammon; Freak Show, edited by F. Paul Wilson; Deathport, edited by Ramsey Campbell; and Peter Straub's Ghosts. The sixth was Whitley Strieber's Aliens.

Robert Bloch's Psychos, twenty-two tales of the madmen among us, was published in paperback by Pocket Books in January 1998, ISBN 0-671-88598-7. A limited first-edition hardcover was published by Cemetery Dance Publications (that's Richard Chizmar's small press) in 1997, ISBN 1-881475-26-3; it's out of print.

There are editions in Italian and Japanese, as well.

Mr. Bloch died before the book was completed; the anthology was finished by anonymous co-editors. I was president of HWA at the time -- it was something of a job getting things straightened out, but the result is a fine book.

The table of contents is below. If any of the contributor webpage links are out of date, please tell me.

Table of Contents

• "The Lesser of Two Evils" by Denise M. Bruchman
• "Point of Intersection" by Dominick Cancilla
• "Echoes" by Cindie Geddes
• "So You Wanna Be A Hitman" by Gary Jonas
• "Interview with A Psycho" by Billie Sue Mosiman
• "Lifeline" by Yvonne Navarro
• "Knacker Man" by Richard Parks
• "Deep Down There" by Clark Perry
• "Lighting the Corpses" by Del Stone, Jr.
• "Grandpa's Head" by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• "Blameless" by David Niall Wilson
• "A Southern Night" by Jane Yolen
• "Lonelyhearts" by Esther Friesner
• "The Rug" by Edo van Belkom
• "Cage of Night" by Daniel Ransom
• "Doctor, Lawyer, Kansas City Chief" by Brent Monahan
• "Please Help Me" by Richard Christian Matheson
• "Haunted" by Charles L. Grant
• "Icewall" by William Gagliani
• "Safe" by Gary A. Braunbeck
• "The Forgiven" by Steven Mark Rainey
• "Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King

That's it; here's your list of handy exits:

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