Contents

Introduction
by Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles

A Rather Scholarly View of Edgar Allan Poe, Genre-Crosser
by Uwe Sommerlad

The Gold Bug Conundrum
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro1

Street of the Dead House
by Robert Lopresti

Naomi
by Christopher Rice

Finding Ulalume
by Lisa Morton

Obsession With the Bloodstained Door
by Rick Chiantaretto

The Lighthouse
by Barbara Fradkin

The Masques of Amanda Llado
by Thomas S. Roche

Atargatis
by Robert Bose

The Ravens of Consequence
by Carol Weekes and Michael Kelly

Annabel Lee
by Nancy Holder

Dinner With Mamalou
by J. Madison Davis

The Deave Lane
by Michael Jecks

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by Richard Christian Matheson

Afterlife
by William F. Nolan, Jason V. Brock, and Sunni K. Brock

The Drowning City
by Loren Rhoads

The Orange Cat
by Kelley Armstrong

The Inheritance
by Jane Petersen Burfield

Sympathetic Impulses
by David McDonald

Asylum
by Colleen Anderson

The Return of Berenice
by Tanith Lee

The Eye of Heaven
by Margaret Atwood

Contributors’ Bios

Acknowledgments

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