ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All stories are reprinted with the permission of the authors. Special thanks to Rene Sears, Jennifer Do, and Jarred Weisfeld of Pyr and Start. Thanks to all the original editors of these stories.

“Shuck” ©2021 G. V. Anderson. First publication: Deadlands #2.

“Hand-Me-Down” ©2021 Seán Padraic Birnie. First publication: I Would Haunt You If I Could.

“Where We Will Go On Together” ©2021 J. S. Breukelaar. First publication: The Dark #70.

“The Bletted Woman” ©2021 Rebecca Campbell. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2021.

“The Wishing Pool” ©2021 Tananarive Due. First publication: Uncanny #41.

“The Sequence” ©2021 Brian Evenson. First publication: Conjunctions 77.

“The God Bag” ©2021 Christopher Golden. First publication: Beyond the Veil, ed. Mark Morris.

“For Sale by Owner” ©2021 Elizabeth Hand. First publication: When Things Get Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow.

“Mr. Death” ©2021 Alix E. Harrow. First publication: Apex #121.

“Wolfsbane” ©2021 Maria Dahvana Headley. First publication: Nightmare #100.

“Jetty Sara” ©2021 Glen Hirshberg. First publication: December Tales, ed. J. D. Horn.

“Refinery Road” ©2021 Stephen Graham Jones. First publication: When Things Get Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow.

“Across the Dark Water” ©2021 Richard Kadrey. First publication: Tor. com, 2/3/2021.

“Jenny Greenteeth” ©2021 Alison Littlewood. First publication: The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror, ed. Stephen Jones.

“And for My Next Trick, I Have Disappeared” ©2021 Chimedum Ohaegbu. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2021.

“Laughter Among the Trees” ©2021 Suzan Palumbo. First publication: The Dark #69.

“Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather” ©2021 Sarah Pinsker. First publication: Uncanny #39.

“Caving” ©2021 David J. Schow. First publication: Weird Doom, ed. John Scoleri.

“In the Garden of Ibn Ghazi” ©2021 Molly Tanzer. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April, 2021.

“Barefoot and Midnight” ©2021 Sheree Renee Thomas. First publication: Apex #122.

“Beneath the Forest’s Wilting Leaves” ©2021 Steve Toase. First publication: To Drown in Dark Water.

“Blood Ties” ©2021 Jade Wilburn. First publication: Fiyah #18.

“The Nag Bride” ©2021 A. C. Wise. First publication: The Ghost Sequences.