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