ISBN 0-7472-0499-3 (UK hbk),,, ? (US pbk),,, ? (UK pbk)

Introduction by Harlan Ellison;

"The River Styx Runs Upstream" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine , April 1982),

"Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in Omni , September 1982),

"Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in the anthology Night Visions 5 , Dark Harvest, 1988),

"Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in Mile High Futures , November 1985),

"Remembering Siri" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , December 1983),

"Metastasis" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in the anthology Night Visions 5 , Dark Harvest, 1988),

"The Offering" by Dan Simmons
(teleplay, first appeared on the syndicated television show Monsters , 1990),

"E-Ticket to 'Namland" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in Omni , November 1987),

"Iverson's Pits" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in the anthology Night Visions 5 , Dark Harvest, 1988),

"Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in the anthology Masques III edited by J.N.Williamson, 1989),

"The Death of the Centaur" by Dan Simmons,

"Two Minutes Forty-Five Seconds" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in Omni , April 1988),

"Carrion Comfort" by Dan Simmons
(first appeared in Omni , September/October 1983).

"Demonstrating the incredible breadth and power of Dan Simmons's writing, Prayers to Broken Stones is set in worlds of dark imagination that only the author of such award-winning novels as Carrion Comfort , Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion could envision.

"Encounter an old man and a young boy for whom the ghosts of the civil war will not rest in peace... Driven mad by guilt, a scientist dooms himself with a final effort to administer poetic justice... Could the shadowy, deformed beings only half glimpsed by a coma patient be responsible for so much miery and death in our world...?

"Ranging from the chill of deep space to a cold wind rising from an open grave, and from the infinite possibilities of the mind to a vampire's hunger, Prayers to Broken Stones is a chilling, moving and transfixing collection of short fiction from a remarkable writer." [jacket blurb, UK hbk, 1992]