CONTENTS

Introduction: Stranger Days • PAULA GURAN

Recognition • VICTOR LAVALLE

Odette • ZEN CHO

Das Gesicht • DALE BAILEY

The Sycamore and the Sybil • ALIX E. HARROW

The Stonemason • DANNY RHODES

Desiccant • CRAIG LAURANCE GIDNEY

Open House on Haunted Hill • JOHN WISWELL

The Genetic Alchemist’s Daughter • ELAINE CUYEGKENG

Swanskin • ALISON LITTLEWOOD

The Dead Outside My Door • STEVE RASNIC TEM

Lusca • SOLEIL KNOWLES

To Sail the Black • A. C. WISE

Nobody Lives Here • H. PUEYO

On Safari in R’lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera • ELIZABETH BEAR

The Thickening • BRIAN EVENSON

The Owl Count • ELIZABETH HAND

Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo • CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE

Ancestries • SHEREE RENÉE THOMAS

The Sound of the Sea, Too Close • JAMES EVERINGTON

Drunk Physics • KELLEY ARMSTRONG

Call Them Children • WENMIMAREBA KLOBAH COLLINS

Tea with the Earl of Twilight • SONYA TAAFFE

Wait for Night • STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES

Where the Old Neighbors Go • THOMAS HA

Dead Bright Star (July 1987) • CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN

And This is How to Stay Alive • SHINGAI NJERI KAGUNDA

Lacunae • V. H. LESLIE

The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods • MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY

Monster • NAOMI KRITZER

Last Night at the Fair • M. RICKERT

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