When Things Get Dark

Hardback edition ISBN: 9781789097153

E-book edition ISBN: 9781789097160

Published by Titan Books

A division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd

144 Southwark Street, London SE1 0UP

www.titanbooks.com

First edition: September 2021

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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead (except for satirical purposes), is entirely coincidental.

Introduction © Ellen Datlow 2021

Funeral Birds © M. Rickert 2021

For Sale By Owner © Elizabeth Hand 2021

In the Deep Woods; The Light is Different There © Seanan McGuire 2021

A Hundred Miles and a Mile © Carmen Maria Machado 2021

Quiet Dead Things © Cassandra Khaw 2021

Something Like Living Creatures © John Langan 2021

Money of the Dead © Karen Heuler 2021

Hag © Benjamin Percy 2021

Take Me, I Am Free © Joyce Carol Oates 2021

A Trip to Paris © Richard Kadrey 2021

The Party © Paul Tremblay 2021

Refinery Road © Stephen Graham Jones 2021

The Door in the Fence © Jeffrey Ford 2021

Pear of Anguish © Gemma Files 2021

Special Meal © Josh Malerman 2021

Sooner or Later, Your Wife Will Drive Home © Genevieve Valentine 2021

Tiptoe © Laird Barron 2021

Skinder’s Veil © Kelly Link 2021

The authors assert the moral right to be identified as the author of their work.

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