Contents of FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS

• Introduction by Karl Edward Wagner, MD
• Men Like Us
• Something Had to be Done
• The Automatic Rifleman
• Than Curse the Darkness
• Firefight
• The Red Leer
• The Shortest Way
• Best of Luck
• Dragons' Teeth
• Out of Africa
• The Dancer in the Flames
• Smokie Joe
• Children of the Forest
• Blood Debt
• The Barrow Troll
• The Hunting Ground

My original title for this collection was BALEFIRES. Jim Baen asked me to change it late in the process because a big-budget book of that title was due out shortly. I may use the title on the planned Fedogan & Bremer collection of my early horror stories, but by this point I'm not sure it's a good title.

--Dave Drake