Acknowledgments

I would like to express my thanks to the Guggenheim Foundation for its invaluable support.

I would like to thank as well the editors of the following publications in which these stories appeared:

“No Matter Which Way We Turned”: People Holding. Reprinted in Ellen Datlow, ed., The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 9. Reprinted in Ellen Datlow, ed., The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: Ten Years of Essential Short Horror.

“Born Stillborn”: Catapult

“Leaking Out”: Mark Morris, ed., New Fears 2

“Song for the Unraveling of the World”: Bourbon Penn

“The Second Door”: Justin Steele and Sam Cowan, eds., Looming Low. Reprinted in Robert Shearman and Michael Kelly, eds., Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 5.

“Sisters”: Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton, eds., Haunted Nights

“Room Tone”: The Masters Review

“Shirts and Skins”: Hunger Mountain

“The Tower”: Plinth

“The Hole”: Scott Dwyer, ed., Phantasm/Chimera

“A Disappearance”: Lake Effect

“The Cardiacs”: Diagram

“Smear”: Conjunctions. Reprinted in John Joseph Adams and Charles Yu, eds., The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2017.

“The Glistening World”: Outlook Springs

“Wanderlust”: Mississippi Review

“Lord of the Vats”: Scott Gable and C. Dombrowski, eds., Ride the Star Wind

“Glasses”: Ellen Datlow, ed., Children of Lovecraft

“Menno”: Gamut

“Line of Sight”: Michael Kelly, ed., Shadows & Tall Trees 7

“Trigger Warnings”: Autre Lettres

“Kindred Spirit”: Lumina

“Lather of Flies”: Max Booth III and Lori Michelle, eds., Lost Films