by Paula Guran
“A Song for Wounded Mouths” (PseudoPod 64)
Dines, Steven J.: “Pendulum” (Black Static #70)
Elison, Meg: “Hey Alexa” (Do Not Go Quietly, eds. J. Sizemore & L. Conner)
Files, Gemma: “The Puppet Motel” (Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. E. Datlow)*
Ford, Jeffrey: “The Jeweled Wren” (Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. E. Datlow)
“Sisyphus in Elysium” (The Mythic Dream, eds. D. Parisien & N. Wolfe)
Fu, Angela: “Tansy” (The Dark #44)
Gardner, Cate: “The Mute Swan” (Terror Tales of Northwest England, ed. P. Finch)
Goodfellow, Cody: “Massaging the Monster” (Black Static #70)
Goss, Theodora: “A Country Called Winter” (Snow White Learns Witchcraft)
“How to Become a Witch-Queen” (Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery, eds. C. Golden & R. A. Deering)
Greenblatt, A. T.: “Before the World Crumbles Away” (Uncanny #27)
Hodge, Brian: “One Last Year Without a Summer” (Skidding Into Oblivion)
Howard, Kat: “Curses Like Words, Like Feathers, Like Stories” (The Mythic Dream, eds. D. Parisien & N. Wolfe)
“An Invitation to a Burning” (Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery, eds C. Golden & R. A. Deering)
Huang, S.L.: “As the Last I May Know” (Tor.com)
Huerta, Lizz: “The Wall” (A People’s Future of the United States, eds. V. LaValle & J. J. Adams)
Johnstone, Carole: “Deep, Fast, Green” (Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. E. Datlow)*
“Skinner Box” (Tor.com)
Johnstone, Tom: “The Wakeman Recreation Ground” (Last Stop Wellsbourne)*
Jones, Stephen Graham: “This Was Always Going to Happen” (Terror at 5280’, ed. Anonymous)*
“The Tree of Self-Knowledge” (Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. E. Datlow)
Kim, Alice Sola: “Now Wait for This Week” Alice Sola Kim (The Cut 1/17/19)*
Laben, Carrie: “The Crying Bride” (The Dark #45)*
Langan, Sarah: “The Night Nurse” (Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery, eds C. Golden & R. A. Deering)*
Lansdale, Joe R.: “The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team” (At Home in the Dark, ed. L. Block)*
Lauryn, Inda: “Dustdaughter” (Uncanny #26)
Leckie, Ann: “The Justified” (The Mythic Dream, eds. D. Parisien & N. Wolfe)
Lewis, L.D.: “Moses” (Anathema 4/19)
“Signal” (Fireside 8/19)
Liburd, Tonya: “Bootleg Jesus” (Diabolical Plots 6/17/19)
Lore, Danny: “Fare” (Fireside 8/19)
Lombardi, Nicola: “Striges” (The World of SF, Fantasy and Horror, Vol. IV, ed. R. N. Stephenson)
Lothian, Jack: “They Are Us (1964): An Oral History” (Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles, ed. C. M. Muller)
Lu, S. Qiouyi: “As Dark as Hunger” (Black Static #72)*
Mauro, Laura: “In the City of Bones” (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
“The Pain-eater’s Daughter” (Sing Your Sadness Deep)
McHugh, Maura: “The Boughs Withered: When I Told Them My Dreams” (The Boughs Withered When I Told Them My Dreams)
Miller, Sam J.: “Shucked” (F&SF, Nov/Dec 2019)
Mills, Samantha: “Adrianna in Pomegranate” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2/19)
Mondal, Mimi: “Malotibala Printing Press” (Nightmare #80)
Morrow, James: “Bird Thou Never Wert” (F&SF Nov/Dec 2019)
Ness, Mari: “The Girl and the House” (Nightmare #79)
Ogden, Aimee: “Blood, Bone, Seed, Spark” (Beneath Ceaseless Skies #271)
Ogle, L’Erin: “The Girls Who Come Back Are Made of Metal and Glass” (Metaphorosis 6/28/19)*
Okungbawa, Suyi Davies: “Dune Song” (Apex #120)
“The Haunting of 13 Olúwo Street” (Fireside 10/19)
Osahon, Ize-Iyamu: “Therein Lies a Soul” (The Dark #49)
Palmer, Suzanne: “The Painter of Trees” (Clarkesworld 6/19)
Perry, Steve: “I’m With the Band” (Pop the Clutch, ed. E. J. Guignard)
Peterfreund, Diana: “Playscape” (F&SF, Mar/Apr 2019)*
Pueyo, H.: “An Open Coffin” (The Dark #47)
Read, Sarah: “The Hope Chest” (Black Static #72)*
Rebelein, Sam: “My Name Is Ellie” (Bourbon Penn 18)
Rickert, M.: “Evergreen” (F&SF, Nov/Dec 2019)
Roanhorse, Rebecca: “A Brief Lesson in Native American Astronomy (The Mythic Dream, eds. D. Parisien & N. Wolfe)
Saab, Sara: “The Wiley” (The Dark #48)
Sen, Nibedita: “We Sang You as Ours” (The Dark #49)
Shearman, Robert: “I Say (I Say, I Say)” (Tales from the Shadow Booth: Vol. 3, ed. D. Coxon)
Sheil, Steven: “The Touch of Her” (Black Static #70)
Slatter, Angela: “Widows’ Walk” (Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery, eds C. Golden & R. A. Deering)
“Wilderling” (The Dark #48)*
Srinivasan, Shalini: “Road: A Fairy Tale” (Strange Horizons 5/20/19)
Strantzas, Simon: “Antripuu” (Nightmare #82)
Stufflebeam, Bonnie Jo: “Every Song Must End” (Uncanny #27)
Swanwick, Michael: “Ghost Ships” (F&SF, Sept/Oct 2019)
Swirsky, Rachel, and P. H. Lee: “Compassionate Simulation” (Uncanny # 29)
Tem, Steve Rasnic: “Snowmen” (Everything Is Fine Now)
“A Sudden Event” (The Night Doctor and Other Tales)
“The Woman in the Attic” (Everything Is Fine Now)
Theodoridou, Natalia: “The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Saved” (Black Static #70)
Tremblay, Paul: “Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person” (Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. E. Datlow)
Watt, D. P.: “Our Second Home” (Petals & Violins)
Westlake, Jack: “Looking” (Black Static #72)
“Pomegranate Pomegranate” (Black Static #69)
White, Gordon B.: “Birds of Passage” (PseudoPod 663)
Wise, A. C.: “The Ghost Sequences” (Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. E. Datlow)
“How the Trick Is Done” (Uncanny # 29)
Wolfmoor, Merc Fenn: “Sweet Dreams Are Made of You” (Nightmare # 84)
Yap, Isabel: “Windrose in Scarlet” (Lightspeed 10/19)
Zahabi, Rebecca: “It Never Snows in Snowtown” (F&SF, Nov/Dec 2019)*
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to John Joseph Adams, Andy Cox, Ellen Datlow, C. C. Finlay, Diana Fox, Lane Heymont, Rene Sears, Jonathan Strahan, and Jarred Weisfeld. Also to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton who made me (indirectly) stay home to finish this on time. All stories are reprinted with permission of the author.
“A Strange, Uncertain Light” © 2019 G. V. Anderson (First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2019)
“About the O’Dells” © 2019 Pat Cadigan (First publication: Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow)
“The Fourth Trimester Is the Strangest” © 2019 Rebecca Campbell (First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2019)
“Hunting by the River” © 2019 Daniel Carpenter (First publication: Black Static #69)
“Conversations With the Sea Witch” © 2019 Theodora Goss (First publication: Snow White Learns Witchcraft)
“Read After Burning” © 2019 Maria Dahvana Headley (First publication: A People’s Future of the United States, eds. Victor LaValle & J. J. Adams)
“Nice Things” © 2019 Ellen Klages (First publication: Uncanny #28)
“The Thing, With Feathers” © 2019 Marissa Lingen (First publication: Uncanny #26)
“Thoughts and Prayers” © 2019 Ken Liu (First publication: Future Tense 1/26)
“Haunt” © 2019 Carmen Maria Machado (First publication: Conjunctions 72)
“Phantoms of the Midway” © 20
19 Seanan McGuire (First publication: The Mythic Dream, eds. Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe)
“Shattered Sidewalks of the Human Heart” © 2019 Sam J. Miller (First publication: Clarkesworld #154)
“The Surviving Child” © 2019 Joyce Carol Oates (First publication: Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow)
“His Heart Is the Haunted House” © 2019 Aimee Ogden (First publication: Apparition Literary Magazine Issue Seven: Retribution)
“The Coven of Dead Girls” © 2019 L’Erin Ogle (First publication: PseudoPod, episode 651)
“Logic Puzzles” © 2019 Vaishnavi Patel (First publication: The Dark #54)
“The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye” © 2019 Sarah Pinsker (First publication: Uncanny #29)
“Burrowing Machines” © 2019 Sara Saab (First publication: The Dark #44)
“Some Kind of Blood-Soaked Future” © 2019 Carlie St. George (First publication: Nightmare #85)
“In That Place She Grows a Garden” © 2019 Del Sandeen (First publication: Fiyah #10)
“The Promise of Saints” © 2019 Angela Slatter (First publication: A Miscellany of Death, ed. Mark Beech)
“Blood Is Another Word for Hunger” © 2019 Rivers Solomon (First publication: Tor.com 7/24/19)
“Boiled Bones and Black Eggs” © 2019 Nghi Vo (First publication: Beneath Ceaseless Skies #275)
“A Catalog of Storms” © 2019 Fran Wilde (First publication: Uncanny #26)
“Glass Eyes in Porcelain Faces” © 2019 Jack Westlake (First publication: Black Static #70)
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Paula Guran is an editor, reviewer, and typesetter. In an earlier life she produced the weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stokers, an IHG Award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination), edited the magazine Horror Garage (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination), and has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications.
This is, if she’s counted correctly (and she often doesn’t), the forty-seventh anthology Guran has edited. She’s also edited scores of novels and some collections. After more than a dozen years of full-time editing, she is now freelancing.
Guran has four fabulous grandchildren she would be happy to tell you about.
She lives in Akron, Ohio, with her faithful cat Nala.
