CONTENTS

Introduction: In Nuce by Paula Guran

The Thing About Ghost Stories by Naomi Kritzer

When We Fall, We Forget by Angela Slatter

The Crow Knight by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

True Crime by M. Rickert

Every Good-bye Ain’t Gone by Eden Royce

Rust and Bone by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

Raining Street by J. S. Breukelaar

Big Mother by Anya Ow

Hainted by Ashley Blooms

The Governor by Tim Powers

Down Where the Sound Comes Blunt by G. V. Anderson

And Yet by A. T. Greenblatt

Honey by Valya Dudycz Lupescu

Sour Milk Girls by Erin Roberts

Four Revelations from the Rusalka Ball by Cassandra Khaw

Sick Cats in Small Places by Kaaron Warren

He Sings of Salt and Wormwood by Brian Hodge

Second to the Left, and Straight On by Jim C. Hines

Thanatrauma by Steve Rasnic Tem

Music for the Underworld by E. Lily Yu

Faint Voices, Increasingly Desperate by Anya Johanna DeNiro

The Empyrean Light by Gregory Norman Bossert

Big, Dark Hole by Jeffrey Ford

Just Another Love Song by Kat Howard

Tom Is in the Attic by Robert Shearman

In the End, It always Turns Out the Same by A. C. Wise

The Pine Arch Collection by Michael Wehunt

In This Twilight by Simon Strantzas

A Man Walking His Dog by Tim Lebbon

Asphalt, River, Mother, Child by Isabel Yap

Fish Hooks by Kit Power

Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes by D. P. Watt

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

About the Editor