This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are either fictitious or used fictitiously.

The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories copyright © 2016 by Elizabeth Delano Charlaff

(joanaiken.com). All rights reserved. Page 254 of the print edition is an extension of the copyright page.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Aiken, Joan, 1924-2004, author. | Aiken, Lizza, writer of

  introduction. | Link, Kelly, writer of introduction.

Title: The people in the castle : selected strange stories / Joan Aiken ;

  introduction by Lizza Aiken and Kelly Link.

Description: First edition. | Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2015050134 (print) | LCCN 2016007991 (ebook) | ISBN

  9781618731128 (hardback) | ISBN 9781618731135

Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Short Stories (single author). | FICTION /

  Fantasy / Short Stories. | FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Fairy Tales,

  Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.

Classification: LCC PR6051.I35 A6 2016 (print) | LCC PR6051.I35 (ebook) | DDC

  823/.914--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015050134

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Set in Centaur 12 pt.

Cover art “The Castle in the Air” by Joan Aikman, 1939. © Blue Lantern Studio/Corbis.

Paper edition printed on 50# Natures Natural 30% PCR recycled paper by the Maple Press in York, PA.