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.
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
—Dave Drake
From the Heart of Darkness. 1983, NY: Tor. 320 p. 081253607X. $2.95.