Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror

The US Viking Press 1980 edition is the true first — the anthology is an American original anthology and Viking's issue precedes the British one. The first British edition is Macdonald & Jane's (Macdonald Futura), London, 1980, published under the variant subtitle 'New Stories of Suspense and the Supernatural'; it is separately collected as the first UK appearance but does not compete for precedence. The Lonely Road Books 25th Anniversary Special Edition is a much later 'first thus' and is not a first edition of the text.