Acknowledgments

“The Woman in the Window” originally appeared in One Story (2016) and has also appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories 2017, ed. John Sandford (Mariner Books, 2017) and In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper, ed. Lawrence Block (Pegasus, 2016).

“The Long-Legged Girl” originally appeared in The Kenyon Review (2017).

“Sign of the Beast” was originally published by Amazon Original Stories (2017).

“The Experimental Subject” was originally published by Conjunctions.com (2017).

“Walking Wounded” originally appeared in Conjunctions (2015).

“Night-Gaunts” originally appeared in The Yale Review (2017) and contains isolated lines from H.P. Lovecraft’s work, notably “The Outsider,” “The Shunned House,” and “At the Mountains of Madness.”