ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MICHAEL MARANO is a former punk rock DJ, bouncer, and the author of the modern dark fantasy classic Dawn Song, which won both the International Horror Guild and Bram Stoker Awards, and which will be reprinted by ChiZine Publications in 2013, to be followed by two sequels. For more than 20 years, his film reviews and pop culture commentary have been a highlight of the nationally syndicated Public Radio Satellite System show Movie Magazine International. His non-fiction has appeared in alternative newspapers such as The Independent Weekly, The Boston Phoenix and The Weekly Dig, as well as in magazines such as Paste and Fantastique. His column “MediaDrome” has been a wildly popular feature in Cemetery Dance since 2001. He currently divides his time between a neighbourhood in Boston that had been the site of a gang war that was the partial basis of The Departed and a sub-division in Charleston, SC a few steps away from a former Confederate Army encampment. He can be reached at www.michaelmarano.com.
PUBLICATION HISTORY
“Displacement” appears here for the first time.
“Little Round Head” originally appeared on Gothic.Net, July 2001 issue.
“Changeling” originally appeared in Last Pentacle Of The Sun: Writings In Support Of The West Memphis Three (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004).
“The Siege” originally appeared in Queer Fear, ed. Michael Rowe (Arsenal Pulp Press,2000)
“Burden” originally published on Gothic.Net, March 1999 issue. Reprinted, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11 (Carroll & Graf, 2000)
“. . . And the Damage Done” originally appeared in Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From the Edge, edited by Nancy Holder and Nancy Kilpatrick
(Roc, 2005)
“Exit Wound” originally appeared in Queer Fear II (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002). Reprinted on Gothic.Net, January 2003 issue.
“Winter Requiem” originally appeared in a shorter version in Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn, ed. Beagle and Janet Berliner (Harper/Prism, 1995). This novelette was serialized on Gothic.Net, October 1999 and November 1999 issues.
“Shibboleth” appears here for the first time.
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