title: Sleight of Hand: Bite Back Book 1 (Volume 1)
author:  Mark Henwick 
description: <b><i><span>Charles de Lint, in a review of the series for Fantasy &amp; Science Fiction:</span></i></b><br /><b>"They represent some of the best the field has to offer."</b>
zlib_text: The 
  Gruesome Book 
  
  The Gruesome Book 
  edited by 
  Ramsey Campbell 
  A Piccolo Original 
  Piccolo Books 
  
  First published 1983 by Pan Books Ltd, 
  Cavaye Place, London SWIO 9PG 
  This collection <!:> Pan Books Ltd 1983 
  ISBN 0 330 269100 
  Filmset by 
  Northumberland Press Ltd. Gateshead, Tyne and Wear 
  Printed and bound in Great Britain by 
  Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, 
  Bungay, Suffolk 
  This book is sold subject to the conditions that it 
  shall not. by way of trade or otherwise� be lent. re-sold, 
  hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior 
  consent in any fonn of binding or cover other than that in which 
  it is published and without a similar condition including this 
  condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser 
  
  for Angie and John 
  - one for the children's library 
  
  Contents 
  Introduction 9 
  Ramsey Campbell, Calling Card 11 
  Nigel Kneale, The Pond 20 
  August Derleth, The Extra Passenger 30 
  Robert Bloch, Hobo 42 
  Donald A. Wollheim, Bones 48 
  Brian Lum