Contents

Cover

Title Page

Welcome

Dedication

Introduction by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt

That the Machine May Progress Eternally by Carrie Ryan
Inspired by E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”

The King of Elfland’s Daughter by Charles Vess

Losing Her Divinity by Garth Nix
Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would Be King”

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman
Inspired by “Sleeping Beauty”

Kai Lung’s Golden Hours by Charles Vess

The Cold Corner by Tim Pratt Inspired by Henry James’s “The Jolly Corner”

Millcara by Holly Black
Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla

Figures of Earth by Charles Vess

When First We Were Gods by Rick Yancey
Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-Mark”

Sirocco by Margaret Stohl
Inspired by Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto

The Shaving of Shagpat by Charles Vess

Awakened by Melissa Marr
Inspired by Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

New Chicago by Kelley Armstrong
Inspired by W. W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw”

The Wood Beyond the World by Charles Vess

The Soul Collector by Kami Garcia
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm’s “Rumpelstiltskin”

Without Faith, Without Law, Without Joy by Saladin Ahmed
Inspired by Sir Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

Goblin Market by Charles Vess

Uncaged by Gene Wolfe
Inspired by William B. Seabrook’s “The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban”

Contributor Biographies