Table of Contents of the Best Horror of the Year volume Twelve-it’ll be out early fall.

Summation: 2019

Ice Cold Lemonade 25ȼ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person by Paul Tremblay
A Song For Wounded Mouths by Kristi DeMeester
Birds of Passage by Gordon B. White
The Puppet Motel by Gemma Files
The Senior Girls Bayonet Drill Team by Joe R. Lansdale
The Night Nurse by Sarah Langan
They Are Us (1964): An Oral History by Jack Lothian
As Dark As Hunger by S. Qiouyi Lu
I Say (I Say, I Say) by Robert Shearman
The Pain-Eater’s Daughter by Laura Mauro
The Hope Chest by Sarah Read
Nor Cease You Never Now by Ren Warom
Playscape by Diana Peterfreund
Adrenaline Junkies by Ray Cluley
Watching by Tim Lees
Mr. And Mrs. Kett by Sam Hicks
Below by Simon Bestwick
My Name is Ellie by Sam Rebelein
Slipper by Catriona Ward
How To Stay Afloat When Drowning by Daniel Braum
This Was Always Going to Happen by Stephen Graham Jones
The Butcher’s Table by Nathan Ballingrud
Honorable Mentions
About the Authors
Acknowledgment of Copyright
About the Editor

Rees, Gareth E. “We Are the Disease,” Tales from the Shadow Booth vol. 2.

Rennie, S. A. “Sailing to Trebizond,” A Book of the Sea.

Rennie, S.A. “Out of the Water, out of the Ground,”A Ghosts & Scholars book ofFolk.

Repetto, Giovanni, trans Amanda Blee “My Father’s Face,”Tales from the …vol.2.

Rhoades, Loren “Elle a vu un Loup,” Weirdbook #40.

Rickert, M. “True Crime,” Nightmare 72 September.

Robson, Kelly “What Gentlewomen Dare,” Uncanny #22.

Ronald, Margaret “In the Ground, Before the Freeze,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies Nov.

Rooney, Lindiwe “In Her Bones,” The Dark, January #32.

Royle, Nicholas “The Blink,” The Dummy.

Runge, Karen “Angeline,” Suspended in Dusk II.

Rust, Julia and Surface, David “TallDarkAnd,” Uncertainties Volume III.

Rustad, A. Merc “If We Die Unjustified,” Uncanny #22.

Rustad, A. Merc “Mr. Try Again,” Nightmare 66 March.

Rutledge, Charles R. “Bleeding Through,” Clickers Forever.

Ryman, Geoff “This Constant Narrowing,” F&SF November/December.

Sabourin, Michel “Not This Girl,” Ghosts, Goblins, Murder, & Madness.

Sandison, George “Blocks,” BFS Horizons #8.

Sandison, George C. “Keel,” Tales from the Shadow Booth vol. 2.

SanGiovanni, Mary “We Sang in Darkness,” Welcome to the Show.

Schaefer, C.A. “Last Rites,” MAR XXXVIII, Number 1.

Scheuerman, Ashlee “ The Mantle of Flesh,” A World of Horror.

Scheuerman, Ashlee “Teeth and Teeth and Teeth,” Lost Films.

Schneider, Charles “The Damnation of Captain MQuhae,” A Book of the Sea.

Schwader, Ann K. “Inheritance,” What October Brings.

Schwader, Ann K. “The Dark Reclaims Us,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 9.

Schweitzer, Darrell “Uncle’s in the Treetops,” What October Brings.

Seidel, Alexandra “The House Beneath,” (poem) Not One of Us #59.

Selke, Lori “A Head in a Box…,” Nightmare 64 January.

Sharma, Priya “A Son of the Sea,” All the Fabulous Beasts.

Sharma, Priya “Maw,” New Fears 2.

Shaw, Vivian “The Utmost Bound,” Uncanny 20.

Shearman, Robert “Pumpkin Kids,” The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories.

Shearman, Robert “TheCocktailPartyinKensingtonGetsOutofHand,”TheDreamingIsle.

Shearman, Robert “Tom Is In the Attic,” Phantoms.

Sheil, Steven “Cora,” Black Static 66 November/December.

Sheldon, Deborah “Hair and Teeth,” Aurealis #113.

Sheppard, Oliver “Nocturne No. 13,” (poem) Thirteen Nocturnes.

Sheppard, Oliver “Nocturne No. 5,” (poem) Thirteen Nocturnes.

Sheppard, Oliver “Plate XIII: Demons,” (poem) Thirteen Nocturnes.

Sheppard, Oliver “The Trees That Make the Gallows,” (poem) Thirteen Nocturnes.

Shirley, John “Flesh Flowers,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 9.

Shirley, John “Hum-Hurt You.Hum-Hurt You. Hum-Hurt You,”What October Brings.

Slatter, Angela “A Matter of Light,” Gaslight Gothic.

Slatter, Angela “Honor Thy Mother,” Hark! The Herald Angels Scream.

Slatter, Angela “Swan Girls,” Corpselight (paperback edition).

Slatter, Angela “When We Fall, We Forget,” Phantoms.

Smeltzer, Ross ”The Strigoaica” Nightscript IV

Smith, J. Ashley “The Further Shore,” Bourbon Penn 15.

Smith, Michael Marshall “The Scariest Thing in the World,” TheMamBkofHalloween.

Smith, Michael Marshall “The Window of Erich Zann,” The Lovecraft Squad.

Smith, Scott “Christmas in Barcelona,” Hark! The Herald Angels Scream.

Snell, Matt “Ars Moriendi,” Bourbon Penn 16.

Sng, Christina “Memoirs in the Dark,” Spectral Realms No. 8.

Sng, Christina “The Girl and Her Wolf Dog,” Spectral Realms No. 8.

Sng, Christina “The Joy of Sewing,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume V.

Sng, Christina “The Mermaid,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 9.

Snyder, Lucy A. “Cosmic Cola,” What October Brings.

Speegle, Darren “Three Towns, One Migrant,” Cries From the Static.

Steadman, Ian “Feather and Twine,” Night Light.

Sternbergh, Adam “Loophole,” Tiny Crimes.

Stevenson, Jeff C. “The Insects of Seneca Village,” A New York State of Fright.

Storey, Josh “Clean Up Aisle Four,” Corporate Cthulhu.

Strantzas, Simon “Our Town’s Talent,” Nothing Is Everything.

Stufflebeam, Bonnie Jo “The Men Who Come from Flowers,” F&SF Sept/Oct.

Sunnen, Florence “The Hook,” A Nightjar chapbook.

Sutton, David A. “The Dew-Shadows,” A Ghosts & Scholars book of Folk Horror.

Taaffe, Sonya “Kot Apebhee N Henphkochobehhoe xhbothoe,”(poem)Animal Day II.

Taaffe, Sonya “Nostalgia,” (poem) Not One Of Us #60.

Taaffe, Sonya “The Women Around Achilles,” (poem) Not One of Us #59.

Taff, John F. D. “A Winter’s Tale,” Little Black Spots.

Taff, John F. D. “The Bunny Suit,” Ibid.Taff, John F. D. “The Coriolis Effect,” Ibid.

Taff, John F. D. “Their Hands,” ibid.

Taloni, John “Career Zombie,” Corporate Cthulhu.

Tambour, Anna “Care and Sensibility,” The Road to Neozon.

Tanquary, Nicole “A Last Meal,” Not One of Us #59.

Tantlinger, Sara “Amalgamation,”(poem) Poetry Showcase volume V.

Tanzer, Molly “Le Cygne Baiseur,” Mechanical Animals.

Taylor, Lucy “Sucklings,” Monsters of Any Kind.

Taylor, Lucy “Umbilicus,” Tales From the Lake Volume 5.

Tem, Steve Rasnic “For All His Eyes Can See,” The Dark, #39 August.

Tem, Steve Rasnic “The Parts Man,” The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories Vol. 3.

Thomas, Lee “Fodder’s Jig,” The Devil and the Deep.

Thompson, Matt “Bones of Flightless Birds,” Black Static 63, May-June.

Thompson, Matt “The Gramophone Man,” Black Static #65, Sept-Oct.

Thompson, Sean M. “The Blind Opera,” Vastarien 3.

Thompson, Tade “Kaseem’s Way,” (novella) Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein.

Thompson, Tade “Yard Dog,” Fiyah #7.

Thomson, Sam “The Monstrosity in Love,” Black Static 64, July/August.

Toase, Steve “Dirt Upon My Skin,” Animal Day II.

Toase, Steve “Verwelktag,” Lackington’s October 30.

Tobler, E. Catherine “Sanguinary Scar,” Black Static #62.T

odd, Darren “Apotheosis,” Corporate Cthulhu.

Travis, Julie “Trigger,” Vastarien 2.

Tredwell, Lela “My Eye, Eye,” The Pinch.

Trent, Letitia “The Hopeless in the Uninhabitable Places,” Suspended in Dusk II.

Unger, Lisa “The Sleep Tight Motel,” Dark Corners Collection.

Valentine, Mark “The Forwarding Agent,” Supernatural Tales 37.

Van Den Berg, Laura “Friends,” Tiny Crimes.

Van Young, Adrian “the Rhetorician,” Tiny Crimes.

Vaughn, Carrie “The Island of Beasts,” Nightmare 75 Dec.

Vincent, Bev “Aeliana,” Shining the Dark.

Volk, Stephen “Cold Ashton,” This Dreaming Isle.

Volk, Stephen “Father of the Man,” Gaslight Gothic.

Volk, Stephen “The Airport Gorilla,” New Fears 2.

Waggoner, Tim “The Gray Room,” Ashes and Entropy.

Walters, Damien Angelica “The Last Wintergirl,” Monsters of Any Kind.

Ward, Catriona “Lula-Belle,” Phantoms.

Ward, Catriona “The Pier at Ardentinny,” This Dreaming Isle.

Ward, Kyla Lee “And in Her Eyes the City Drowned,” Weirdbook #39.

Warra, Brooke “I Feel Better Now,” Vastarien 3.

Warren, Kaaron “Love Thee Better,” Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein.

Warren, Kaaron “Sick Cats in Small Places,” A World of Horror.

Warren, Kaaron “The Revivalist,” Mother of Invention.

Waxhead, Rayna “The Glow at Home,” Vastarien 3.

Webb, M. F. “Forty Years in Innsmouth,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 9.

Wehunt, Michael “Caring for a Stray Dog (Metaphors),” Black Static #62.

Wehunt, Michael “The Pine Arch Collection,” The Dark, May #36.

Weighell, Ron “The Palace of Force and Fire,” The Silent Garden.

West, Mark “Brooks Pond,” The Black Room Manuscripts Volume IV.

West, Melanie “What You Pass For,” F&SF May/June.

Westlake, Jack “Bury Me with Broken Light Bulbs, Bury Me in…,” Black Static #62.

Westlake, Jack “The Blockage,” Black Static 64, July/August.

Whiteley, Aliya “Pack Your Coat,” New Fears 2.

Whiteley, Aliya “Territory: Blank,” Interzone 277, Sept/October.

Wilde, Fran “Disconnect,” Uncanny #24.

Wilde, Fran “Ruby, Singing,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #261.

Wilkinson, Charles “The November House,” Vastarien 2.

Williams, Takim “The Sower,” Fiyah #6.

Williamson, Chet “Hell Among the Yearlings,” What October Brings.

Wilson, Mary Krawczak “The Unseen,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 9.

Wise, A. C. “In the End, it Always Turns Out the Same,” The Dark 37.

Wiseman, Laura M. & Blythe, Andrea “Stone Clutched..,” (poem) Star*Line spring.

Wong, Alyssa “What My Mother Left Me,” The Devil and the Deep.

Worth, Aaron “The Theatre of Ovid,” Vastarien 1.

Wreford, Amelia “Worm,” BFS Horizons #8.

Yates, David “Others’ Tears,” (poem)

Little, Bentley “MoNa Retrospective, Los Angeles,” Walking Alone.

Littlewood, Alison “The Halloween Monster,” TheMammoth Bk of Halloween Stories.

Littlewood, Alison “The Marvellous Talking Machine,” Phantoms.

Littlewood, Alison “Ways to Wake,” Nightmare 70 July.

Lloyd, Rebecca “The Bellboy,” (novella) Zagava.

Logan, Kirsty “Domestic Magic…..” This Dreaming Isle.

Logan, Kirsty “Good Good Good, Nice Nice Nice,” Tales fromtheShadowBoothvol. 2.

Logan, Kirsty “My House Is Out Where the Lights End,” Nightscript IV

Lojewski, Kimberly “One For the Crow,” Worm Fiddling Nocturne in the Key of a…

Lopez, Lori R. “Angel of Death,” (poem). HWA Poetry Showcase V.

Lucas, Christine “The Drowned Man’s Kiss,” Psudopod.

Lucas, Tim “The Migrants,” New Fears 2.

Lupescu, Valya Dudycz “Honey,” A World of Horror.

Lyons, Matthew “Persistent Pieces,” Not One Of Us #60.

Maberry, Jonathan “All the Devils Are Here,” Hellhole.

Machado, Carmen Maria “Mary When You Follow Her,” Tiny Crimes.

Machin, James “Seven Sisters,” Weirdbook #39.

MacLeod, Bracken “Back Seat,” Lost Highways.

Macleod, Bracken “Lying in the Sun on a Fairy Tale Day,” Suspended in Dusk II.

MacLeod, Bracken “Pigs Don’t Squeal in Tigertown,” New Fears 2.

MacLeod, Bracken and Anderson, Paul Michael “How We Broke,” Chiral Mad 4.

Malerman, Josh “Adam’s Bed,” Doorbells at Dusk.

Malerman, Josh “Tenets,” Hark! The Herald Angels Scream.

Malik, Usman T. “Dear Lovers on Each Blade, Hung,” Nightmare 74 November.

Martin, David “Things Behind the Sun,” Black Static #62.

Mason, Lisa “Aurelia,” F&SF January/February.

Mason, Rena “The Devil’s Throat,” Hellhole.

Massie, Elizabeth “Twenty Hours,” (poem) HWA Poetry Showcase Volume V.

Massie, Elizabeth/Simon, Marge “The Substance of Belief,” Chiral Mad 4.

Matsuura, “Thersa “The Wife Who Didn’t Eat,” A World of Horror.

McCombs, Theodore “Six Hangings in the Land of UnkillableWomen,”Nightmare 65.

McDermott, Kirstyn “Sleeping Dogs,” Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2.

McDermott, Kirstyn “Triquetra,” Tor.com September 5.

McDonald, Keris “Nine Portraits of Empress Danrin,” Dark Voices.

McDonald, Keris “Remember,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors.

McGachey, Daniel “Figures on the Beach,” By No Mortal Hand.

McGachey, Daniel “The Deliverance of Dr Peacock,” By No Mortal Hand.

McGroarty, David “The West Wind,” A World of Horror.

McHugh, Jessica “Amity in Bloom,” Ashes and Entropy.

McHugh, Jessica “Things She Left in the Woods,” Lost Films.

McMahon, Gary “The Hanging Boy,” The Black Room Manuscripts Volume IV.

McMahon, Jennifer “Hannah-Beast,” Dark Corners.

McNee, John “Tears of Honey,” The Black Room Manuscripts Volume IV.

Michael, J. C. “The Immortal Dead,” Suspended in Dusk II.

Millard, Adam “Checkmate,” Visions From the Void.

Miller, Mark Alan “The Dive,” Monsters of Any Kind.

Miller, Sam J. “Red Lizard Brigade,” Uncanny #23.

Monette, Sarah “”The Testimony of Dragon’s Teeth,” Uncanny 21.

Moore, Alison “The Stone Dead,” The Dreaming Isle.

Moore, Jonathan “The Blackout,” Dark Screams Volume 9.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Lam,” Crimewave 13: Bad Light.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Peelers,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors.

Moraine, Sunny “Your Slaughterhouse, Your Killing Floor,” Uncanny 20.

Morris, Mark “Buddy,” Tales from the Shadow Booth vol. 2.

Morris, Stephanie Malia “Bride Before You,” Nightmare 68 June.

Murray, Lee “Dead End Town,” Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2.

Murray, Lee “Edward’s Journal,” Cthulhu Land of the Long White Cloud.

Nelson, David Erik “In the Sharing Place,” Asimov’s SF, Sept/October.

Nevill, Adam L. G. “Wyrd,” Uncertainties Volume III.

Newman, Kim “Voodoo Vs Cthulhu,” The Lovecraft Squad.

Nichols, Kenneth “Final Rescue,” Tiny Crimes.

Nickle, David “On a Wooden Plate, On a Winter’s Night,” A World of Horror.

Niveau, Thana “Octoberland” Octoberland.

Nogle, Christi “Cinnamon To Taste,” Nightscript IV

O’Connor, Matt “Bits,” Aurealis #113.

Oates, Joyce Carol “Miao Dao,” Dark Corners Collection.

Oates, Joyce Carol “Wanting,” Narrative, winter.

Ogawa, Yukimi “Warashi’s Grip,” A World of Horror.

Okungbowa, Suyi Davies “The Secret Life of the Unclaimed,” A World of Horror.

Onoh, Nuzo “Death Lines,” Black Magic Women.

Osahon, Ize-Iyamu “And Songs Don’t End,” Fiyah #7

Osborne, Emma “Don’t Pack Hope,” Nightmare 67 May.

Oxbrow, Mark “No Doves Come from Raven’s Eggs,” Corporate Cthulhu.

Palahniuk, Chuck “One Day You’ll Thank Me,” Fangoria vol. 2, issue 1.

Pang, Allison “A Dream Most Ancient and Alone,” Tales From the Lake Volume 5.

Park, J. B. “Molting Season,” The Dark February #33.

Parker, Rosalie “Chimera,” Great British Horror 3: For Those in Peril.

Parker, Rosalie “View From a Window,” Sparks From the Fire.

Parypinski, Joanna “Commencement,” Vastarien 2.

Parypinski, Joanna “The House of Y,” Black Static 66 November/December.

Parypinski, Joanna “The Thing In the Trees,” Nightscript IV

Pastorella, Bob “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida on 8Track,” Lost Films.

Pate, Bekki “Skrik,” Weirdbook #39.Pedersen, Kailee “The Pursuer,” Black Static #65, Sept-Oct.

Percy, Benjamin “On Cutler Street,” New Fears 2.

Perez, Hamilton “Our Mortal Undressing,” The Dark, May #36.

Phillips, Thomas “Beknighted,” And the Darkness Back Again.

Phillips, Thomas “Children of the Family,” Ibid.

Phillips, Thomas “Everything Was Explicable,” Ibid.

Phillips, Thomas “Firehouse,” Ibid.

Pinborough, Sarah “The Hangman’s Bride,” Hark! The Herald Angels Scream.

Piper, Hailey “The Man Upstairs,” Five on the Fifth, vol. 4, issue 1.

Pitman, Marion “The Apple Tree,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors.

Power, Albert “The Final Flight of Fidelia,” A Book of the Sea.

Probert, John Llewellyn “The Discontent of Familiars,” A Ghosts & Scholars book of..

Pugmire, W.H. “An Implement of Ice,” Weirdbook #38.

Rabarts, Dan “Riptide,” Suspended in Dusk II.

Rabarts, Dan “The Silence at the Edge of the Sea,” Cthulhu Land…Cloud.

Raffle, Bryce “Basil Hallward’s Machine,” Hideous Progeny.

Rai, Misha “What We Know, Tiny Crimes.

Rajotte, Mary “The Culling,” Black Buttons, Volume 3: A Family Affair.

Ramani, Madhvi “Teufelsberg,” The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors.

Rawlik, Peter “Forced Labor,” Corporate Cthulhu.

Rawlik, Peter “The Studies of Dr. Reid,” Pickman’s Gallery.

Readman, Angela “Swimming With Horses,” The Dreaming Isle.

Herrman, Heather “The Woman in the Blue Dress,” Dark Screams Volume 10.

Hessen, LC von “The Medium and the Message,” Pickman’s Gallery.

Heuler, Karen “I Am,” The Clockworm and Other Strange Stories.

Hill, Matt Neil “The Giving of Gifts,” Weirdbook #40.

Hines, Jim C. “Second to the Left, Straight On,” Robots vs Unicorns.

Hirshberg, Glen “Shaken,” The Ones Who Are Waiting.

Hodge, Brian “Rut Seasons,” New Fears 2.

Hodge, Brian “Weird Shadows Over Innsbruck,” The Lovecraft Squad.

Hoffman, Nina Kiriki “Communion,” (poem) Dreams & Nightmares 110/Sept.

Holder, Nancy “Nyarlahotep Came Down to Georgia,” What October Brings.

Holder, Nancy “The Strange Adventures of Mary

Holder,” Gaslight Gothic.

Holmes, Carly “Figurehead,” Figurehead.

Holmes, Carly “Into the Woods,” (poem) Figurehead.

Holmes, Carly “Little Matrons,” Figurehead.

Holmes, Carly “They Tell Me,” Figurehead.

Holmes, Carly “Three For a Girl,” Figurehead.

Hood, Robert “A Man Totally Alone,” The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories.

Hood, Robert “Time and Tide,” Cthulhu Deep Down Under Volume 2.

Hook, Andrew “The Al Pacino Appreciation Society,” Crimewave 13: Bad Light.

House, Rebecca “Visiting Friends,” Running Wild Anthology of Stories vol 2.

Howison, Del “A Flicker of Bright Light,” 18 Wheels of Science Fiction.

Hudak, Jennifer “Changed,” Endless Apocalypse Short Stories.

Hulbert, Hannah “Red,” BFS Horizons #7.

Hunt, Samantha “Night Divine,” The Cut, December 20^th.

Hvide, Brit E. B. “The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon, California, and…” Uncanny #23.

Jacobs, John Hornor “Patchwork Things,” Cemetery Dance #76.J

akeman, Jane “By Severn’s Flood,” A Book of the Sea.

Jakeman, Jane “Ghost Hunting,” Supernatural Tales 38.

Jeffrey, Michelle “The Wendigo,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 9.

Johnson, Daisy “She Would Walk Them,” Bourbon Penn 16.

Johnson, Hal “The Hunting of the Kipsy:…” A New York State of Fright.

Johnson, L. S. “A Harvest Fit for Monsters,” Nightscript IV

Johnstone, Tom “In the Hold, It Waits,” Book of the Sea.

Johnstone, Tom “The Cutty Wren,” A Ghosts & Scholars book of Folk Horror.

Joiner, Mat “Other Voices,” Night Light.

Joiner, Mat “The Concrete Child,” Not One Of Us #60.

Jones, Martin “Withernsea,” (poem) A Book of the Sea.

Jones, Reen “Postcards From the Lake,” Dark Voices.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Broken Record,” Devil and the Deep.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Use Your Inside Voice,” I Don’t Want to Play This Game..

Jurado, Cristina “Second Death of the Father,” Alphaland.

Kalaw, R.K. “Bones in the Rock,” Uncanny #23.

Kalaw, R.K. “The Date,” Uncanny 20.

Kaufmann, Nicholas “The Fire and the Stag,” Black Static #63 May-June.

Keaton, David James “The Fantastic Flying Eraser Heads,” Lost Films.

Keene, Brian “Running Free,” Welcome to the Show.

Kemper, Erinn L. “Cracker Creek,” Monsters of Any Kind.

Khaw, Cassandra “The Quiet Like a Homecoming,” Lightspeed 93, February.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “A Chance of Frogs on Wednesday,” Sirenia Digest 149.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “As Water is Water,” Sirenia Digest 144.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Day After Tomorrow, the Flood,” Sirenia Digest 147.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “F is for Fruiting Bodies (also Fungophobia)” Sirenia Digest 148.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “H is for Hound,” Sirenia Digest 148.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “S is for Shoggoth,” Sirenia Digest 150.Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Virginia Story,” Sirenia Digest 146.

King-Miller, Lindsay “The Fruit,” The Fiends in the Furrows.

King, Stephen “The Turbulence Expert,” Flight or Fright.

Kingsley, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe “To Blight a Fig Tree Before t Bears Fruit”Apex Jan

Kiste, Gwendolyn “An Elegy for Childhood Monsters,” Suspended in Dusk II.

Kiste, Gwendolyn “To Blaze a Sweet Heretic’s Heart,” Mantid Volume 3.

Kochanowski, Aurea “The Midden Wall,” (poem) Not One Of Us #60.

Kodra, Cathy “A Barn, a Horse, a Star,” Longshot Island.

Krall, Jordan “My Time at the Drake Clinic. Vastarien 1.

Kröger, Lisa “Swamp Dog,” Lost Highways.

Kuraria, David “Kõpura Rising,” Cthulhu Land of the Long White Cloud.

La Marr, Charie D. ‘The Lady in the Sideshow,” A New York State of Fright.

Laben, Carrie “Augerino,” Mantid Volume 3.

Lackhoff, Hannah “Spawning Ground, Weirdbook #39.

Laidlaw, Marc “A Swim and A Crawl,” F&SF March/April.

Lanagan, Margo “The Other Foot,” Sword and Sonnet.

Landry, Jess “Mutter,” Fantastic Tales of Terror.

Langan, John “Breakwater,” Ashes and Entropy.

Langan, John “The Deep Sea Swell,” The Devil and the Deep.

Lansdale, Joe R. “The Second Floor of the Christmas Hotel,” Hark! The Herald

Larson, Rich “Penitents,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies #245.

Latham, Mark A. “One New Follower,” Phantoms.

Latham, Mark A. “The Cuckoo’s Hour,” Gaslight Gothic.

Lawal, Wale “Joy,” Lagos Noir.Laws, Stephen “The Greek Widow,” Night Light.

Lebbon, Tim “A Man Walking His Dog,” Phantoms.

Lebbon, Tim “Emergence,” New Fears 2.

Lebbon, Tim “Home,” Hark! The Herald Angels Scream.

Lee, Nathan “Systems,” Cemetery Dance #76.

Light, Evans “Rusty Husk,” Doorbells at Dusk.