ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

All stories are reprinted with the permission of the authors.

Special thanks, once again, to Rene Sears, Jennifer Do, and Jarred Weisfeld of Pyr and Start, as well as their super production team. Thanks, too, to A. C. Wise who gave me a sneak peek at her list of favorite stories from 2022. Finally, as always, I’m grateful for all the original editors of these stories and the hundreds more I read during the year.

“The Voice of a Thousand Years” ©2022 Fawaz Al-Matrouk. First publication: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2022.

“The Lending Library of Final Lines” ©2022 Octavia Cade. First publi-cation: The Dark #80.

“A Belly Full of Spiders” ©2022 Mario Coelho. First publication: PseudoPod 813.

“Red Wet Grin” ©2022 Gemma Files. First publication: Screams from the Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow.

“The Long Way Up” ©2022 Alix E. Harrow. First publication: The Deadlands #9.

“Men, Women, and Chainsaws” ©2022 Stephen Graham Jones. First publication: Tor.com, April 20, 2022.

“Swim the Darkness” ©2022 Michael Kelly. First publication: The Dark #87.

“How Selkies Are Made” ©2022 Cassandra Khaw. First publication: Breakable Things.

“Lemmings” ©2022 Kirstyn McDermott. First publication: Weird Horror 5.

“Challawa” ©2022 Usman T. Malik. First publication: Dark Stars, ed. John F. D. Taff.

“The Summer Castle” ©2022 Ray Nayler. First publication: Nightmare #113.

“In The Smile Place” ©2022 Tobi Ogundiran. First publication: Fiyah #24.

“Douen” ©2022 Suzan Palumbo. First publication: The Dark #82.

“The Dyer and the Dressmakers” ©2022 Bindia Persaud. First publi-cation: Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror, ed. Sara Tantlinger.

“The Feeding of Closed Mouths” ©2022 Eden Royce. First publication: (Re)Living Mythology, eds. Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H. D. Hunter, and LP Kindred.

“The Woman Who Married the Minotaur” ©2022 Angela Slatter. First publication: The Sunday Morning Transport, October 23, 2022.

“The Ercildoun Accord” ©2022 Steve Toase. First publication: Lackington’s #25.

“Bonesoup” ©2022 Eugenia Triantafyllou. First publication: Strange Horizons, July 11, 2022.

“Shadow Plane” ©2022 Fran Wilde. First publication: Weird Tales #365.

“Sharp Things, Killing Things” ©2022 A. C. Wise. First publication: Nightmare #121 .

“A Monster in the Shape of a Boy” ©2022 Hannah Yang. First publica-tion: Apex #131.