This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Introduction and compilation copyright © 2019 by Ellen Datlow
“Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person” copyright © 2019 by Paul Tremblay
“Linger Longer” copyright © 2016 by Vincent J. Masterson. First published in The Masters Review, February 2016. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Whimper Beg” copyright © 2019 by Lee Thomas
“The July Girls” copyright © 2019 by Alison Littlewood
“About the O’Dells” copyright © 2019 by Pat Cadigan
“A Hinterlands Haunting” copyright © 2019 by Richard Kadrey
“The Number of Things You Remember” copyright © 2019 by M. L. Siemienowicz
“Must Be This Tall to Ride” copyright © 2019 by Seanan McGuire
“The Surviving Child” copyright © 2019 by Joyce Carol Oates
“The Medium’s End” by Ford Madox Ford. First published in The Bystander, March 13, 1912
“A Shade of Dusk” copyright © 2019 by Indrapramit Das
“Icarus Rising” copyright © 2019 by Richard Bowes
“The Puppet Motel” copyright © 2019 by Gemma Files
“Air Valve Semilunar Astern” copyright © 2019 by Nick Mamatas
“The Unwrapping” copyright © 2019 by Terry Dowling
“The Upper Berth” by F. Marion Crawford. First published in The Broken Shaft: Unwin’s Annual for 1886
“A Burning Sword for Her Cradle” copyright © 2019 by Aliette de Bodard
“Precipice” copyright © 2019 by Dale Bailey
“The Shooter” copyright © 2019 by M. Rickert
“The Tree of Self-Knowledge” copyright © 2019 by Stephen Graham Jones
“The Other Woman” copyright © 2019 by Alice Hoffman
“The Loneliness of Not Being Haunted” copyright © 2019 by Bracken MacLeod
“Mee-Ow” copyright © 2019 by Garth Nix
“Jasper Dodd’s Handbook of Spirits and Manifestations” copyright © 2019 by Nathan Ballingrud
“His Haunting” copyright © 2019 by Brian Evenson
“The Jeweled Wren” copyright © 2019 by Jeffrey Ford
“The Air, the Ocean, the Earth, the Deep” copyright © 2019 by Siobhan Carroll
“The Ghost Sequences” copyright © 2019 by A. C. Wise
“Deep, Fast, Green” copyright © 2019 by Carole Johnstone
“Natalya, Queen of the Hungry Dogs” copyright © 2019 by John Langan
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Illustration in “Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person” by Emma Tremblay
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Datlow, Ellen, editor.
Title: Echoes : the Saga anthology of ghost stories / edited by Ellen Datlow.
Other titles: Saga anthology of ghost stories
Description: First edition. | New York : Saga Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018000655 | ISBN 9781534413474 (paperback) | ISBN 9781534413467 (hardcover)
ISBN 9781534413481 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Ghost stories. | Horror tales. | BISAC: FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors). | FICTION / Ghost.
Classification: LCC PN6071.G45 E34 2018 | DDC 808.83/8733—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018000655