Cautionary Tales Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Thirteen tales of good and evil - or evil and evil - complete with girl ghouls, child molesters, and sadists with cannibalistic tendencies. Chilling tales full of alien beauty or terror. Stories to make your goose-bumps pop out and your hair stand up. Weird sci-fi horror, shudder-inducing, take-two-steps-back and shudder horror... more ». Each story is followed by a short comment from the author, some illuminating, some overly coy, lapsing into the "Will I tell you? No" school of design.
Contents:
Introduction to Quinn Yarbro's Stories (1978) • essay by James Tiptree, Jr.
Everything That Begins with an "M" (1972) / short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Frog Pond (1971) / short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Un Bel Di (1973) / novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Lammas Night (1976) / novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Into My Own (1975) / novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Disturb Not My Slumbering Fair (1978) / short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Meaning of the Word (1973) / short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Generalissimo's Butterfly (1978) / novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Allies (1977) / novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Dead in Irons (1976) / novelette by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Swan Song (1978) / short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Fellini Beggar (1976) / short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
An Indulgence (1978) • poem by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro