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Ekaterina Sedia resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically acclaimed novels, The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams, and Heart of Iron were published by Prime Books. Her short stories have sold to Analog, Baen’s Universe, Subterranean and Clarkesworld, as well as numerous anthologies, including Haunted Legends and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She is also the editor of Paper Cities (World Fantasy Award winner), Running with the Pack, and Bewere the Night, as well as forthcoming Bloody Fabulous and Wilful Impropriety. Visit her at www.ekaterinasedia.com.
Nisi Shawl’s story collection Filter House won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. Something More and More, a collection of stories and essays, celebrates her WisCon 35 Guest of Honor status. Shawl is the co-author (with Cynthia Ward) of Writing the Other: A Practical Approach; a founder of the Carl Brandon Society; and a member of Clarion West’s Board of Directors. With Dr. Rebecca Holden, Shawl co-edited Strange Matings: Octavia E. Butler, Science Fiction, Feminism, and African American Voices, forthcoming in 2013 from Aqueduct Press. She edits reviews for the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a literary quarterly. Recently published online fiction includes “Black Betty” at Crossed Genres, and “Honorary Earthling” at Expanded Horizons.
John Shirley is the author of more than thirty novels. The latest, Everything Is Broken, was published earlier this year. His numerous short stories have been compiled into eight collections including Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Darkside, winner of the Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, and named as one of the best one hundred books of the year by Publishers Weekly and, most recently, In Extremis: The Most Extreme Short Stories of John Shirley. He has written scripts for television and film, and is best known as co-writer of The Crow. As a musician, Shirley has fronted several bands over the years and written lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult and others. To learn more about John Shirley and his work, please visit his website at john-shirley.com.
Peter Straub is the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. They include Ghost Story, Koko, Mr. X, In the Night Room, A Dark Matter, and two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House. He has written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction. Straub edited the Library of America’s edition of H.P. Lovecraft’s Tales as well as the Library of America’s two-volume anthology American Fantastic Tales. He has won the British Fantasy Award, thirteen Bram Stoker Awards, two International Horror Guild Awards, and two World Fantasy Awards. In 1998, he was named Grand Master at the World Horror Convention. In 2006, he was given the HWA’s Life Achievement Award and, in 2008, both the International Horror Guild’s Living Legend Award and the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award by Poets & Writers.
Melanie Tem is the author of twelve novels and many short stories. She received a Bram Stoker Award for her debut novel, Prodigal, and the Icarus Award from the British Fantasy Society. Crossroad Press recently released the ebook version of In Concert, collecting all her collaborations with husband Steve Rasnic Tem. Their co-written novella The Man on the Ceiling won the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and International Horror Guild Awards.
Steve Rasnic Tem is the author of over three hundred published works. His latest novel is Deadfall Hotel (Solaris Books). Fall 2012 will see publication of Ugly Behavior collecting the best of his noir fiction, from New Pulp Press. In 2013 ChiZine will publish Celestial Inventories, collecting the best of his recent contemporary fantasy and slipstream fiction.
About the Editor
Paula Guran serves as senior editor for Prime Books. This is her fifteenth anthology; two more will be published before the end of 2012. Her Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series appears annually. She edited the Juno fantasy imprint for six years from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Books. When Guran began this book she did not believe in ghosts; she now prays that they exist.
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to all the editors who first published many of these stories.
“Between the Cold Moon and the Earth” by Peter Atkins © 2007 Peter Atkins. First publication: Postscripts, Spring 2007, eds. Nick Gevers, Peter Crowther (PS Publishing).
“There’s a Hole in the City” by Richard Bowes © 2005 Richard Bowes. First publication: SciFiction, 6 June 2005.
“The Lagerstätte” by Laird Barron © 2008 Laird Barron. First publication: The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction’s Finest Voices, ed. Ellen Datlow (Del Rey/Ballantine).
“The Rag-and-Bone Men” by Steve Duffy © 2000 Steve Duffy. First publication: Shadows and Silence, eds. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press).
“The Trentino Kid” by Jeffrey Ford © 2003 Jeffrey Ford. First publication: The Dark: New Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor).
“Booth’s Ghost” by Karen Joy Fowler © 2010 Karen Joy Fowler. First publication: What I Didn’t See and Other Stories (Small Beer Press).
“October in the Chair” by Neil Gaiman © 2002 Neil Gaiman. First publication: Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists, ed. Peter Straub (Bard College).
“The Box” by Stephen Gallagher © 2006 Stephen Gallagher. First publication: Retro Pulp Tales, ed. Joe R, Lansdale (Subterranean Press).
“Wonderwall” by Elizabeth Hand © 2004 Elizabeth Hand. First publication: Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio (Roc).
“The Muldoon” by Glen Hirshberg © 2006 Glen Hirshberg. First publication: American Morons (Earthling Publications).
“The Score” by Alaya Dawn Johnson © 2009. First publication: Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, eds. Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak (Small Beer Press).
“Uncle” by Stephen Graham Jones © 2012 Stephen Graham Jones. First publication. Original to this volume.
“Apokatastasis” by Caitlín R. Kiernan © 2002 Caitlín R. Kiernan, First publication: The Spook, January 2002.
“Cell Call” by Marc Laidlaw © 2003 Marc Laidlaw. First publication: By Moonlight Only, ed. Stephen Jones (PS Publishing).
“The Proving of Smollett Standforth” by Margo Lanagan © 2011 Margo Lanagan. First publication: Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense, eds. Jack Dann & Nick Gevers (HarperVoyager).
“The Third Always Beside You” by John Langan © 2011 John Langan. First Publication: Blood and Other Cravings, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor).
“The Case of the Lighthouse Shambler” by Joe R. Lansdale © 2011 Joe R. Lansdale. First publication: The Cases of Dana Roberts (Subterranean Press).
“Ancestor Money” by Maureen F. McHugh © 2003 Maureen F. McHugh. First publication: SciFiction, 1 October 2003.
“The Watcher in the Corners” by Sarah Monette © 2007 Sarah Monette. First publication: Notes From the Labyrinth (author’s blog), 23 April 2007.
“Mrs. Midnight” by Reggie Oliver © 2009 Reggie Oliver. First publication: The Fifth Black Book of Horror (Mortbury Press).
“The Plum Blossom Lantern” by Richard Parks © 2003 Richard Parks. First publication: Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, #12, June 2003.
“Savannah is Six” by James Van Pelt. © 2000 James Van Pelt. First publication: Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones, David Sutton (Gollancz/Orion).
“A Soul in a Bottle” by Tim Powers © 2006 Tim Powers. First publication: A Soul in a Bottle (Subterranean Press).
“The Palace” by Barbara Roden © 2007 Barbara Roden. First publication: At Ease With the Dead, eds. Christopher Roden & Barbara Roden (Ash-Tree Press).
“Tin Cans” by Ekaterina Sedia © 2010 Ekaterina Sedia. First publication: Haunted Legends, eds. Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas (Tor).
“Cruel Sistah” by Nisi Shawl © 2005 Nisi Shawl. First publication: Asimov’s, October/November 2005.
“Faces in Walls” by John Shirley © 2010 John Shirley. First Publication: Black Static, June-July 2010
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“Mr. Aickman’s Air Rifle” by Peter Straub © 2004 Peter Straub. First publication: McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, ed. Michael Chabon (Vintage).
“Dhost” by Melanie Tem © 2007 Melanie Tem. First publication: At Ease With the Dead, eds. Christopher Roden & Barbara Roden (Ash-Tree Press).
“The Ex” by Steve Rasnic Tem © 2011 Steve Rasnic Tem. First publication: Box of Delights, ed. John Kenny (Aeon Press).