Publication History

“Scold’s Bridle: A Cruelty” is original to this collection.

 

“Chain of Empathy” is original to this collection.

 

“Banishments” was first published in Looming Low, edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan, Dim Shores, 2017.

 

“Fragile Masks” was first published in The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories, edited by Stephen Jones, Skyhorse Publishing, 2018.

 

“Neithernor” was first published in Aickman’s Heirs, edited by Simon Strantzas, Undertow Publications, 2015.

 

“Deep Eden” was first published in The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu, edited by Paula Guran, Running Press, 2016.

 

“The Patter of Tiny Feet” was first published in Searchers After Horror, edited by S.T. Joshi, Fedogan & Bremer, 2014.

 

“The Rasping Absence” first appeared in Black Wings IV, edited by S.T. Joshi, PS Publishing, 2015.

 

“After the Final” was first published in The Grimscribe’s Puppets, edited by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Miskatonic River Press, 2013.

 

“The Sullied Pane” was first published in Crooked Houses, edited by Mark Beech, Egaeus Press, 2020.

 

“Crawlspace Oracle” was first published in Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh, edited by Justin Burnett, Silent Motorist Media, 2019.

 

“Cast Lots” was first published in Nightmare’s Realm, edited by S.T. Joshi, Dark Regions Press, 2015.

 

“Notes on the Aztec Death Whistle” was first published in Weird Fiction Review #10, edited by John Pelan, Centipede Press, 2020.

 

“Headsman’s Trust: A Murder Ballad” was first published in Pluto in Furs: Tales of Diseased Desires and Seductive Horrors, edited by Scott Dwyer, Plutonian Press, 2019.

 

“Three Knocks on a Buried Door” was first published in Apostles of the Weird, edited by S.T. Joshi, PS Publishing, 2020.

 

“Ten of Swords: Ruin” was first published in Their Dark and Secret Alchemy, edited by Robert Morgan, Sarob Press, 2019.