CONTENTS

Introduction

Ellen Datlow

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Suzy McKee Charnas

The Slug

Karl Edward Wagner

Warm Man

Robert Silverberg

Teratisms

Kathe Koja

M Is for the Many Things

Elizabeth Massie

Folly for Three

Barry N. Malzberg

The Impaler in Love

Rick Wilber

The Moose Church

Jonathan Carroll

Mrs. Rinaldi’s Angel

Thomas Ligotti

The Pool People

Melissa Mia Hall

A Week in the Unlife

David J. Schow

Lifeblood

Jack Womack

Requiem

Melinda M. Snodgrass

Infidel

Thomas Tessier

Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

True Love

K. W. Jeter

Home by the Sea

Pat Cadigan

The Ragthorn

Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth

Contributors’ Notes

Acknowledgments

A Biography of Ellen Datlow