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The Dreaming #56, “The First Adventure of Miss Catterina Poe” (January ’01)
The Dreaming #57–60, “Rise” (February’01–May ’01; series finale)
Vertigo: Winter’s Edge #1, “The Dreaming: Deck the Halls” (’98; coauthored with Peter Hogan)
Vertigo: Winter’s Edge #2, “The Dreaming: Marble Halls” (’99)
Vertigo: Winter’s Edge #3, “The Dreaming: Borealis” (’00)
The Girl Who Would Be Death (four-issue miniseries; 1998–1999)
The Sandman Presents: Bast: Eternity Game (three-issue miniseries; 2002)
Alabaster: Wolves (ed. Rachel Edidin, Dark Horse Comics; five-issue miniseries, 2012; hardback collection, 2013)
Alabaster: Boxcar Tales (ed. Rachel Edidin, and Daniel Chabon, Dark Horse Presents; November 2012–December 2013; hardback released as Alabaster: Grimmer Tales, April 2014)
Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird (ed. Daniel Chabon, Dark Horse Comics, five-issue miniseries, 2015)
Scientific Publications
Wright, Kenneth R. 1985a. A New Specimen of Globidens alabamaensis from Alabama. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 56(3):102.
Wright, K. R. 1985b. What (If Anything) is Tylosaurus zangerli? Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 45th Annual Meeting, Rapid City, SD, poster session with abstract.
Kiernan, K. R. 1985c. A New Specimen of Globidens alabamaensis from Alabama. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 45th Annual Meeting, Rapid City, SD, platform session with abstract.
Wright, K. R. 1986a. A Preliminary Report on the Biostratigraphic Zonation of Alabama Mosasaurs. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 57:146.
Wright, K. R. 1986b. On the Stratigraphic Distribution of Mosasaurs in Western and Central Alabama. Abstracts, North American Paleontological Convention IV, Boulder, CO: A51.
Wright, K. R. 1986c. On the Stratigraphic Distribution of Mosasaurs in Western and Central Alabama. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 46th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, platform session with abstract.
Wright, K. R. 1987. The Mosasaur Clidastes: The Specimens and New Problems. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 58:99.
Wright, K. R. 1988a. The First Record of Clidastes liodontus (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Eastern United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8:343-345.
Wright. K. R. and Shannon, S. W. 1988b. Selmasaurus russelli, a New Plioplatecarpine Mosasaur from Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 8:102-107.
Wright, K. R. 1988c. On the Taxonomic Status of Moanasaurus mangahouangae Wiffen (Squamata: Mosasauridae). Journal of Paleontology 61(1):126-127.
Wright, K. R. 1988d. A New Specimen of Halisaurus platyspondylus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Navesink Formation (Maestrichtian) of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 8(3):A146.
Wright, K. R. and Varner, Daniel 1988. Fleshing-Out the Mosasaurs (Squamata: Mosasauridae). Journal of Paleontology 8(3): A147.
Wright, K. R. and Williams, G. Dent 1989. Vertebrate Fossils of the Blufftown Formation. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science 60(3):
Kiernan, C. R. 1992. Clidastes Cope, 1868 (Reptilia, Sauria): proposed designation of Clidastes propython Cope, 1869 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 49:137–139.
Schwimmer, D. R. and Kiernan, C. R. 2001. Eastern Late Cretaceous theropods in North America and the crossing of the Interior Seaway. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):99A.
Kiernan, C. R. 2002. Stratigraphic distribution and habitat segregation of mosasaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of western and central Alabama, with an historical review of Alabama mosasaur discoveries. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):91-103.
Kiernan, C. R., and Schwimmer, D. R. 2004. First record of a velociraptorine theropod (Tetanurae, Dromaeosauridae) from the Eastern Gulf Coastal United States. The Mosasaur 7:89-93.
Miscellany (Non-Fiction)
“Transmeditations” 1992-1993, The Alabama Forum (monthly column), Lambda, Inc.
“Approximately 2,000 Words About Poppy Z. Brite” 1997 World Horror Convention Program Book, Horror Writers of America
“...And in Closing (For Now)” 1998 afterword for Are You Loathsome Tonight, Poppy Z. Brite; Gauntlet Press
“Foreword” to Gloomcookie Vol. 1 2001, Serena Valentino and Ted Naifeh, Slave Labor Graphics Pub.
“Introduction” to Kissing Carrion 2003, Gemma Files, Prime Books
“Skin by Kathe Koja” 2005 Horror: Another 100 Best Books, Carroll & Graf
“Notes From A Damned Life” 2007 Weird Tales (Apr.-May #444)
“Awful Things” 2007 Locus (May #556)
“The Most Beautiful Music I’ve Ever Read” 2008 Introduction for Ray Bradbury’s The Day It Rained Forever, PS Publishing
“Lovecraft and I” 2011 Lovecraft Annual (August #5), Hippocampus Press
Copyright © 2015 by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Acknowledgements
As I said in the acknowledgements to Volume One, given the scope of a book of this nature, there really is no way to thank everyone who ought to be thanked or to recognize the efforts of everyone who should be recognized. But here’s a special thank you to the editors and publishers who solicited a number of these stories and first gave them homes: Lou Anders, Neil Clarke, Ellen Datlow, and Jonathan Strahan. And very special thanks to the many subscribers of Sirenia Digest, as most of these stories would not exist without you. Indeed, it is worth noting that twenty of the twenty-eight stories in the book were written for and first appeared in Sirenia Digest. Once again, Lee Moyers has provided a portrait of a truer me than is visible with the naked eye (and has given me Selmasaurus kiernanae, realized). Neil Gaiman lent me a beautiful cabin in the Catskills in which to hang with the ghost of Bob Dylan and survive the editing and proofreading of this volume; thanks also to Augusta Ogden and Philip Marshall, who together insured that my two stays in Woodstock during the winter of 2014-2015 were comfortable. I am beholden to S. T. Joshi for his introduction, as I simply could not seem to pull one together for this book. Vince Locke, Richard Kirk, Steve Lieber, and Dark Horse Comics permitted me to reprint the artwork in the limited edition. Thanks to my agent, Merrilee Heifetz of Writers House, for sticking with me all these years. Greer Gilman read an early draft of “Atlantis” and offered valuable criticism. Sonya Taaffe assisted with the proofreading. A special thanks to the Jenks Society for Lost Museums, Brown University and to Christopher Geissler of the John Hay Library, Brown University. And of course, I am grateful to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press who suggested and published these two volumes. But above all, thank you, Kathryn, still my bear, my goat girl, my cranky, melancholic love.
About the Author
The New York Times recently called Caitlín R. Kiernan “one of our essential writers of dark fiction” and S. T. Joshi has declared “…hers is now the voice of weird fiction.” Caitlín’s novels include Silk, Threshold, Low Red Moon, Daughter of Hounds, The Red Tree (nominated for the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards), and The Drowning Girl: A Memoir (winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. and Bram Stoker awards, nominated for the Nebula, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Mythopoeic, Locus, and Shirley Jackson awards). To date, her short fiction has been collected in thirteen volumes, including Tales of Pain and Wonder, From Weird and Distant Shores, Alabaster, A is for Alien, The Ammonite Violin & Others, Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart, Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Volume One), and the Fantasy Award winning The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories. She has also won a World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction for “The Prayer of Ninety Cats.” During the 1990s she wrote The Dreaming for DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, and has recently completed Alabaster for Dark Horse Comics. The first volume, Alabaster: Wolves, received the Bram Stoker Award. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her partner, Kathryn Pollnac.
But all she ever wanted was to be a paleontologist…
About the Font
This book was set in Garamond, a typeface nam
ed after the French punch-cutter Claude Garamond (c. 1480–1561). Garamond has been chosen here for its ability to convey a sense of fluidity and consistency. It has been chosen by the author because this typeface is among the most legible and readable old-style serif print typefaces. In terms of ink usage, Garamond is also considered to be one of the most eco-friendly major fonts.