Special thanks to all the editors who first published many of these stories.
“Between the Cold Moon and the Earth” by Peter Atkins © 2007 Peter Atkins. First publication: Postscripts, Spring 2007, eds. Nick Gevers, Peter Crowther (PS Publishing).
“There’s a Hole in the City” by Richard Bowes © 2005 Richard Bowes. First publication: SciFiction, 6 June 2005.
“The Lagerstätte” by Laird Barron © 2008 Laird Barron. First publication: The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Sixteen Original Works by Speculative Fiction’s Finest Voices, ed. Ellen Datlow (Del Rey/Ballantine).
“The Rag-and-Bone Men” by Steve Duffy © 2000 Steve Duffy. First publication: Shadows and Silence, eds. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden (Ash-Tree Press).
“The Trentino Kid” by Jeffrey Ford © 2003 Jeffrey Ford. First publication: The Dark: New Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor).
“Booth’s Ghost” by Karen Joy Fowler © 2010 Karen Joy Fowler. First publication: What I Didn’t See and Other Stories (Small Beer Press).
“October in the Chair” by Neil Gaiman © 2002 Neil Gaiman. First publication: Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists, ed. Peter Straub (Bard College).
“The Box” by Stephen Gallagher © 2006 Stephen Gallagher. First publication: Retro Pulp Tales, ed. Joe R, Lansdale (Subterranean Press).
“Wonderwall” by Elizabeth Hand © 2004 Elizabeth Hand. First publication: Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, ed. Al Sarrantonio (Roc).
“The Muldoon” by Glen Hirshberg © 2006 Glen Hirshberg. First publication: American Morons (Earthling Publications).
“The Score” by Alaya Dawn Johnson © 2009. First publication: Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, eds. Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak (Small Beer Press).
“Uncle” by Stephen Graham Jones © 2012 Stephen Graham Jones. First publication. Original to this volume.
“Apokatastasis” by Caitlín R. Kiernan © 2002 Caitlín R. Kiernan, First publication: The Spook, January 2002.
“Cell Call” by Marc Laidlaw © 2003 Marc Laidlaw. First publication: By Moonlight Only, ed. Stephen Jones (PS Publishing).
“The Proving of Smollett Standforth” by Margo Lanagan © 2011 Margo Lanagan. First publication: Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense, eds. Jack Dann & Nick Gevers (HarperVoyager).
“The Third Always Beside You” by John Langan © 2011 John Langan. First Publication: Blood and Other Cravings, ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor).
“The Case of the Lighthouse Shambler” by Joe R. Lansdale © 2011 Joe R. Lansdale. First publication: The Cases of Dana Roberts (Subterranean Press).
“Ancestor Money” by Maureen F. McHugh © 2003 Maureen F. McHugh. First publication: SciFiction, 1 October 2003.
“The Watcher in the Corners” by Sarah Monette © 2007 Sarah Monette. First publication: Notes From the Labyrinth (author’s blog), 23 April 2007.
“Mrs. Midnight” by Reggie Oliver © 2009 Reggie Oliver. First publication: The Fifth Black Book of Horror (Mortbury Press).
“The Plum Blossom Lantern” by Richard Parks © 2003 Richard Parks. First publication: Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, #12, June 2003.
“Savannah is Six” by James Van Pelt. © 2000 James Van Pelt. First publication: Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones, David Sutton (Gollancz/Orion).
“A Soul in a Bottle” by Tim Powers © 2006 Tim Powers. First publication: A Soul in a Bottle (Subterranean Press).
“The Palace” by Barbara Roden © 2007 Barbara Roden. First publication: At Ease With the Dead, eds. Christopher Roden & Barbara Roden (Ash-Tree Press).
“Tin Cans” by Ekaterina Sedia © 2010 Ekaterina Sedia. First publication: Haunted Legends, eds. Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas (Tor).
“Cruel Sistah” by Nisi Shawl © 2005 Nisi Shawl. First publication: Asimov’s, October/November 2005.
“Faces in Walls” by John Shirley © 2010 John Shirley. First Publication: Black Static, June-July 2010.
“Mr. Aickman’s Air Rifle” by Peter Straub © 2004 Peter Straub. First publication: McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, ed. Michael Chabon (Vintage).
“Dhost” by Melanie Tem © 2007 Melanie Tem. First publication: At Ease With the Dead, eds. Christopher Roden & Barbara Roden (Ash-Tree Press).
“The Ex” by Steve Rasnic Tem © 2011 Steve Rasnic Tem. First publication: Box of Delights, ed. John Kenny (Aeon Press).