“Takes You Back,” copyright © 2003 George Zebrowski. First published in The Silver Gryphon, edited by Gary Turner and Marty Halpern (Urbana, Golden Gryphon Press, 2003).
“The Wish in the Fear,” copyright © 1995 George Zebrowski. First published in More Phobias, edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg, et al. (New York: Pocket Books, 1995).
Foreword copyright © 2006 by Howard Waldrop.
Copyright © 2009 by George Zebrowski
ISBN 978-1-4804-9482-4
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Foreword
I. Personal Terrors
Jumper
The Wish in the Fear
Hell Just Over the Hill
The Alternate
Earth Around His Bones
Fire of Spring
First Love, First Fear
Passing Nights
Takes You Back
II. Political Horrors
I Walked With Fidel
General Jaruzelski at the Zoo
The Soft Terrible Music
My First World
III. Metaphysical Fears
Interpose
The Coming of Christ the Joker
Nappy
A Piano Full of Dead Spiders
Black Pockets
Lords of Imagination
Afterword
About the Author
Copyright
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