ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to all the editors responsible for the initial publication of these stories. Also to my editor Rene Sears, publisher Jarred Weisfeld, and cover designer Jennifer Do. All stories are reprinted with permission of the author.
“Recognition” © 2020 Victor LaValle. First publication: The New York Times Decameron Project
“Odette” © 2020 Zen Cho. First publication: Shoreline of Infinity 18
“Das Gesicht” © 2020 Dale Bailey. First publication: Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, ed. Ellen Datlow
“The Sycamore and the Sybil” © 2020 Alix E. Harrow. First publication: Uncanny #33
“The Stonemason” © 2020 Danny Rhodes. First publication: Black Static #75
“Desiccant” © 2020 Craig Laurance Gidney. First publication: Slay: Stories of the Vampire Noire, ed. Nicole Givens Kurtz
“Open House on Haunted Hill” © 2020 John Wiswell. First publication: Diabolical Plots #54A
“The Genetic Alchemist’s Daughter” © 2020 Elaine Cuyegkeng. First publication: Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, eds. Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn
“Swanskin” © 2020 Alison Littlewood. First publication: After Sundown, ed. Mark Morris
“The Dead Outside My Door” © 2020 Steve Rasnic Tem. First publication: Black Static #77
“Lusca” © 2020 Soleil Knowles. First publication: Fiyah #13
“To Sail the Black” © 2020 A. C. Wise. First publication: Clarkesworld #170
“Nobody Lives Here” © 2020 H. Pueyo. First publication: The Dark #66
“On Safari in R’lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera” © 2020 Elizabeth Bear. First publication: Tor.com 11/18/20
“The Thickening,” © Brian Evenson. First publication: Conjunctions 74
“The Owl Count” © 2020 Elizabeth Hand. First publication: Conjunctions 74
“Color, Heat, and the Wreck of the Argo” © 2020 Catherynne M. Valente. First publication: Strange Horizons 09/07/20
“Ancestries” © 2020 Sheree Renée Thomas. First publication: Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future
“The Sound of the Sea, Too Close” © 2020 James Everington. First publication: Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, ed. Michael Kelly
“Drunk Physics” © 2020 Kelley Armstrong. First publication: Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, ed. Ellen Datlow
“Call Them Children” © 2020 Wenmimareba Klobah Collins. First publication: The Dark #64
“Tea with the Earl of Twilight” © 2020 Sonya Taaffe. First publication: Nightmare #96
“Wait for Night” © 2020 Stephen Graham Jones. First publication: Tor.com 09/02/20
“Where the Old Neighbors Go” © 2020 Thomas Ha. First publication: Metaphorosis 09/20/20
“Dead Bright Star” © 2020 Caitlín R. Kiernan. First publication: Sirenia Digest #171
“And This is How to Stay Alive” © 2020 Shingai Njeri Kagunda. First publication: Fantasy #61
“Lacunae” © 2020 V. H. Leslie. First publication: Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8, ed. Michael Kelly
“The Girlfriend’s Guide to Gods” © 2020 Maria Dahvana Headley. First publication: Tor.com 01/23/20
“Monster” © 2020 Naomi Kritzer. First publication: Clarkesworld #160
“Last Night at the Fair” © 2020 M. Rickert. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jul/Aug 2020