A dazzling anthology of avian-themed fiction guaranteed to frighten and delight, edited by one of the most acclaimed horror anthologists in the genre.

Birds are usually loved for their beauty and their song. They symbolize freedom, eternal life, the soul.

There’s definitely a dark side to the avian. Birds of prey sometimes kill other birds (the shrike), destroy other birds’ eggs (blue jays), and even have been known to kill small animals (the kea sometimes eats live lambs). And who isn’t disgusted by birds that eat the dead―vultures awaiting their next meal as the life blood flows from the dying. One of our greatest fears is of being eaten by vultures before we’re quite dead.

Is it any wonder that with so many interpretations of the avian, that the contributors herein are eager to be transformed or influenced by them? Included in Black Feathers are those obsessed by birds of one type or another. Do they want to become birds or just take on some of the “power” of birds? The presence or absence of birds portends the future. A grieving widow takes comfort in her majestic winged neighbors, who enable her to cope with a predatory relative. An isolated society of women relies on a bird to tell their fortunes. A silent young girl and her pet bird might be the only hope a detective has of tracking down a serial killer in a tourist town. A chatty parrot makes illegal deals with the dying. A troubled man lives in isolation with only one friend for company―a jackdaw.

In each of these fictions, you will encounter the dark resonance between the human and avian. You see in yourself the savagery of a predator, the shrewd stalking of a hunter, and you are lured by birds that speak human language, that make beautiful music, that cypher numbers, and seem to have a moral center. You wade into this feathered nightmare, and brave the horror of death, trading your safety and sanity for that which we all seek―the promise of flight.

 

Children of Lovecraft is out today from Dark Horse, with a gorgeous cover by Mike Mignola and stories by:

Nesters                                                            Siobhan Carroll

Little Ease                                                       Gemma Files

Eternal Troutland                                          Stephen Graham Jones

The Supplement                                             John Langan

Mortensen’s Muse                                         Orrin Grey

Oblivion Mode                                               Laird Barron

Mr. Doornail                                                   Maria Dahvana Headley

The Secrets of Insects                                   Richard Kadrey

Excerpts for An Eschatology Quadrille    Caitlín R. Kiernan

Jules and Richard                                         David Nickle

Glasses                                                            Brian Evenson

When the Stitches Come Undone                A.C. Wise

On These Blackened Shores of Time            Brian Hodge

Bright Crown of Joy                                       Livia Llewellyn

 

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Rabarts, Dan “Oil and Bone,” Insert Title Here.
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Rempel, Rebekah “The Magpie’s Secret Lives, (poem) One Throne Magazine February.
Reynolds, Alistair “A Murmuration,” Interzone 257, March/April.
Reynolds, Josh “Seeking Whom He May Devour,” The Lovecraft ezine #35.
Rhodes, Danny “The Cleansing,” Black Static #45.
Robbe, Gary “Private Franks,” Shrieks and Shivers from the Horror Zine.
Robson, Kelly “The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill,” Clarkesworld February.
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Rogers, Ian “The Veils,” The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories.
Ross, Leone “The Woman Who Lived in a Restaurant,” Nightjar chapbook.
Roth, Eli “Valdivia,” The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares.
Royle, Nicholas “The Larder,” The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories.
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Runge, Karen “Going Home,” Savage Beasts.
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Russo, Patricia “Locket,” Not One of Us #53.
Rutter, John D. “Last Christmas,” Nightjar Press chapbook.
Salter, Richard “Sharkbait,” Sharkpunk
Samatar, Sofia “Those,” Uncanny Issue #3.
Sammons, Brian M. “A Biting Cold,” Beyond the Mountains of Madness.
Sandoval, Kelly “All the Lovely Brides,” Grimdark #3.
Savile, Steven “Swimming with the Fishes,” Sharkpunk.
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Schweitzer, Darrell “Were-?” Flesh Like Smoke.
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Shirley, John “The Claw Spur,” Edge of Sundown.
Simpson, Daniel “The Winter Stream, “Insert Title Here.
Sisamis, Rodopi “The Cypress God,” She Walks in Shadows.
Slatsky, Christopher “Film Maudit,” Resonator.
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Slatter, Angela “Ripper,” (novella) Horrorology.
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Snyder, Lucy A. “The Yellow Death,” Seize the Night.
Snyder, Lucy A. “While the Black Stars Burn,” Cassilda’s Song.
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Sterns, Aaron “Vanguard,” Cthulhu: Deep Down Under.
Stevens, Dana “The Leap,” The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares.
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Strantzas, Simon “The Last Embers,” Undertow Chapbook Series #1.
Stufflebeam, Bonnie Jo “Dance Our Shoes to Pieces,” Farrago’s Wainscott #14, April.
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Sutton, Pete “Latitude,” North by Southwest.
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Tanzer, Molly and Bullington, Jesse “The Curse of the Old Ones,” Cthulhu Fhtagn!
Taylor, Amy & Andy “Shirley,” Sharkpunk.
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Tem, Steve Rasnic “The Fishing Hut,” Black Static #45.
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Tem, Steve Rasnic and Tem, Melanie “Night Market,” Expiration Date.
Thomas, Jonathan “Sand Bar,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 3.
Thomas, Lee “The Lord of Corrosion,” Queers Destroy Horror.
Thomas, Richard “From Within,” Slave Stories: Scenes from the Slave State.
Thomas, Richard “White Picket Fences,” Shadows over Main Street.
Tidhar, Lavie “Dynamics of an Asteroid,” The MammothBkoftheAdventuresof Moriarty.
Toase Steve “Not All the Coal That Is Dug Warms the World…,”Not One of Us #54.
Tobler, E. Catherine “Lockbox,” She Walks in Shadows.
Tobler, E. Catherine “Silencer….” Interzone #259.
Tobler, E. Catherine “Sweet Water,” Black Static #44.
Tobler, E. Catherine “The Threshold of Waking Light,” Giallo Fantastique.
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Tremblay, Paul “The Ice Tower,” The Burning Maiden 2.
Turnbull, David “The Sweet Meat and the Beet,” Creeping Crawlers.
Tuttle, Lisa “The Book That Finds You,” Aickman’s Heirs.
Tuttle, Lisa “Vastation,” Horrorology.
Tyson, Donald “The Dream Stones,” The Madness of Cthulhu Two.
Tyson, Donald “The Waves Beckon,” Innsmouth Nightmares.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt “Little Traveller,” The Spectral Book of Horror Stories vol 2.
Unsworth, Simon Kurt “The Fool’s Sea,” Professor Challenger:New Worlds,Lost Places.
Valentine, Mark “Vain Shadows Flee,” Supernatural Tales, 30, Autumn.
Van Rijswijk, Bethany “Leaf-foot, Petal-mouth,” (poem) Soliloquy for Pan.
Vaz, Joe “After the Rain,” African Monsters.
Venter, Vianne “Acid Test,” African Monsters.
Vernon, Ursula “Wooden Feathers,” Uncanny Issue #7.
Vincent, Bev “The Boy in the White Sheet,” October Dreams II.
Volk, Stephen “The Shug Monkey,” Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places.
Volk, Stephen “Wrong,” The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories.
Wagner, Josh “The Changing Things,” Lovecraft Ezine #35.
Wagner, Wendy “Three Small Pieces of Pumpkin Pie,” Farrago’s Wainscott #15, July.
Walters, Damien Angelica “Falling Under, Through the Dark,” Black Static #46.
Walters, Damien Angelica “Sing Me Your Scars,” Sing Me Your Scars.
Walters, Damien Angelica “Tooth, Tongue, and Claw,” Nightscript I.
Ward, P. J. “Silvia Reyes,” Protectors 2.
Warren, Kaaron “Body Finder,” Blurring the Line.
Warren, Kaaron “Mine Intercom,” The Review of Australian fiction, #6 vol 13.
Warren, Kaaron “The Bone Mason (Nyarlathotep ),” Illustro Obscurum Collaboration.
Warren, Kaaron “The Gate Theory,” chapbook, Cohesion Press.
Watt, D. P. “Myself/Thyself,” Terror Tales of the Scottish Highlands.
Watt, D. P. Honey Moon,” Soliloquy for Pan.
Waugh, Robert H. “The Black Plastic Rag,” The Blood Tugboat.
Waugh, Robert H. “The Bright Thin Room,” The Blood Tugboat.
Webster, Bud “Farewell Blues,” F&SF January/February.
Weekes, Carol & Kelly, Michael “The Ravens of Consequence,”nEvermore.
Wehunt, Michael “The Devil Under the Maison Blue,” The Dark #10.
Whates, Ian “Sharkadelic,” Sharkpunk.
Whitley, Aliya “To the Farm,” On Spec #99 winter 2014/2015.
Whitworth, E.G. I. “The Path,” Not One of Us #53.
Wilkinson, Charles “In His Grandmother’s Coat,” Nightscript I.
Williams, Conrad “The Offing,” Terror Tales of the Ocean.
Williamson, Chet “Blanket Man,” The Night Listener and Others.
Williamson, Chet “Out of Balance,” Hanzai Japan.
Williamson, Chet “She Sits and Smiles,” Eulogies III.
Williamson, David “And the Dead Shall Speak,” The Eleventh Black Book of Horror.
Williamson, Neil “The Language of Stamps,” Black Static #46.
Wilson, Stephen Lloyd “Miskatonic Schrödinger,” Blurring the Line.
Wise, A. C. “The Lion and the Unicorn,” Lackington’s #5.
Wise, A. C. “Troublemake,” Phobos #3.
Wong, Alyssa “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers,” Queers Destroy Horror.
Wytovich, Stephanie M. “Head Ornaments,” (poem) Spectral Realms 2.
Yardley, Mercedes M. “Just Beyond Her Dreaming,” Cassilda’s Song.
Yeh, David K. “The Selkie,” Lackington’s #6.
Youers, Rio “Separator,” Seize the Night.
Youmans, Marly “The Child and the Night Gaunts,” Dreams from the Witch House.

Hargadon, Stephen “The Visitors,” Black Static #45.
Headley, Maria Dahvana “The Cellar Dweller,” Nightmare, June #33.
Headley, Maria Dahvana “The Thirteen Mercies,” F&SF November/December.
Hellison, Cat “Golden Wing, Silver Eye,” Ghost in the Cogs.
Helms, Alyc “the Blood Carousel,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #32.
Henderson, C. J. “The Pleasure in Madness,” Beyond the Mountains of Madness.
Hensley, Chad “Daemon Insectarium,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 3.
Herbertson, Craig “The Other House, the Other Voice,”TerrorTalesoftheScot. Highlands.
Hernandez, Carlos “Saturn Devouring His Young,” (poem) Strange Horizons Sept.
Heuler, Karen “All Gods Great and Small,” Dreams from the Witch House.
Hill, Jenni “The Serial Killer Who Thought She Was a Shark,” Sharkpunk.
Hirahara, Naomi “Jigoku,” Hanzai Japan.
Hirshberg, Glen “The Ones Who Are Waving,” Rolling Darkness Review 2015.
Hirst, Richard “Do You Know How to Waltz?” Congregation of Innocents.
Hodge, Brian “Eternal, Ever Since Wednesday,” Better Weird.
Hodge, Brian “One Possible Shape of Things to Come,” Eulogies III.
Hodge, Brian “The Lone and Level Sands Stretch Far Away,” Dark Screams Three.
Hoffman, Ada “Lady Blue and the Lampreys,” Canada Noir.
Holder, Nancy “Baubles,” Innsmouth Nightmares.
Hook, Andrew “A Life in Plastic,” Strange Tales V.
Hook, Andrew “Blood for Your Mother” Black Static #48.
Hope, Pandora “Eight Seconds,” She Walks in Shadows.
Hopkinson, Nalo “Flying Lessons,” Falling in Love with Hominids.
Hopkinson, Nalo “Flying Lessons,” Falling Love with Hominids.
Howard, Jonathan L. “Skriker,” Gods, Memes and Monsters.
Howard, Kat “A User’s Guide to Increments of Time,” F&SF March/April.
Howard, Kat “Returned,” Nightmare #28, January.
Howison, Del “Lucky,” 18 Wheels of Horror.
Hunter, Ian “Skye’s Skary Places,” Terror Tales of the Scottish Highlands.
Jager, Michelle “Home Delivery,” SQ Magazine 21.
Jecks, Michael “The Deave Lane,” nEvermore.
Johnson, L. S. “Julie,” Strange Tales V.
Johnson, W. P. “Searching for Gloria,” Exigencies.
Johnstone, Carole “There You’ll Be,” Terror Tales of the Scottish Highlands.
Johnstone, Tom “Face Down in the Earth,” Terror Tales of the Scottish Highlands.
Johnstone, Tom “Under Occupation,” Darkest Minds.
Johnstone, Tom “What I found in the Shed,” Supernatural Tales 31.
Jones, Mark Howard “For the Love of Insects,” Creeping Crawlers.
Jones, Martin “Meadow Saffron,” Soliloquy for Pan.
Jones, Scott R. “The Abraxis Protocol,” Flesh Like Smoke.
Jones, Stephen Graham “Daniel’s Theory About Dolls,” The Doll Collection.
Jones, Stephen Graham “The Man Who Killed Texas,” Nightmares Unhinged.
Joshi, S.T. “Incident at Ferney,” That Is Not Dead.
Kadrey, Richard “Ambitious Boys Like You,” The Doll Collection.
Kaelin, R. A. “Mnemeros,” Dreams from the Witch House.
Kalin, Deborah “The Cherry Crow Children of Haverny Wood,” Cherry Crow Children.
Kalin, Deborah “The Wages of Honey,” Cherry Crow Children.
Kazepis, Michael “Minerva,” Giallo Fantastique.
Keevil, Tyler “It’s in You to Give,” On Spec #99 winter 2014/2015.
Keevil, Tyler “Samhain,” Black Static #44.
Kelly, Michael “Hungry, the Rain-God Wakens,” (poem) Spectral Realms 2.
Ketchum, Jack “Group of Thirty,” Dark Screams Three.
Khaw, Cassandra “An Ocean of Eyes,” The Dark #8.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Black Ships Seen South of Heaven,” Black Wings IV.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Dancy vs the Pterosaur,” Sirenia Digest #111.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Dry Bones,” Sirenia Digest 114.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Le Meneur des Loup,” Sirenia Digest 112.
Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Aubergine Alphabet,” Sirenia Digest #109 and 110.
Kilpatrick, Nancy “A Crazy Mistake,” The Madness of Cthulhu.
Kilpatrick, Nancy “Mourning People,” Innsmouth Nightmares.
Kim, Alice Sola “A Residence for Friendless Ladies,” F&SF March/April.
King, Jacob Michael “Quo Vadis,” Buffalo Almanack #7.
Koryata, Michael “On the Dark Side of Sunlight Basin,” Seize the Night.
Kowal, Mary Robinette “Midnight Hour,” Uncanny Issue #5.
Kressel, Matthew “Demon in Aisle 6,” Nightmare, November #38.
Kuder, Rebecca “Rabbit, Cat, Girl,” XIII.
Lafferty, Mur “In the Walls,” Drabblecast September.
Langan, John “Aphanisis,” Slave Stories: Scenes from the Slave State.
Langan, John “Corpsemouth,” The Monstrous.
Langan, John “Shadow and Thirst,” Seize the Night.
Langan, John “The Communion of Saints,” Giallo Fantastique.
Langan, John “The Open Mouth of Charybdis,” Innsmouth Nightmares.
Langan, Sarah “The Old Jail,” The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares.
Lannes, Roberta “A Raven in the Dove’s Nest,” The Library of the Dead.
Lannes, Roberta “Scarecrow,” October Dreams II.
Lansdale, Joe R. “In the Mad Mountains,” (novella) The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft.
Larner, S.G. “Three Trophies, SQ Magazine 20.
Łaszkiewicz, Weronika “Monster,” (poem), Star*Line, fall.
Laws, Stephen “The End of the Pier,” Terror Tales of the Ocean.
Lebbon, Tim “Skin and Bone,” The Doll Collection.
Lee, Tanith “The Return of Berenice,” nEvermore.
Leslie, V.H. “Bleak Midwinter,” Skein and Bone.
Leslie, V.H. “Ghost,” Skein and Bone.
Leslie, V.H. “Precious Things,” The Outsiders.
LeVoit, Violet “The Electric Palace,” Hanzai Japan.
Lillie, Patricia “The Cuckoo Girls,” Nightscript I.
Lindqvist, John Ajvide “What Kept You So Long?” Seize the Night.
Little, Bentley “Painting by Numbers,” Better Weird.
Littlewood, Alison “The Mystery of the Red City,” The Mammoth Bk of SH Abroad.
Littlewood, Alison “Wolves and Witches and Bears,” Nightmare #34, July.
Logan, Kirsty “Mother of Gians,” The Dark #9.
Long, Nathan Alling “Purses,” Strange Tales V.
Lotz, S. “That Woman,” African Monsters.
Lupescu, Valya Dudycz “Cask,” Schlock Magazine March.
Lynch, H. Andrew “The Rainbow Gun,” Bourbon Penn #10.
Maberry, Jonathan “A Footnote in the Black Budget,” The Madness of Cthulhu Two.
Maberry, Jonathan “Dream a Little Dream of Me,” The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft.
Machado, Carmen Maria “I Bury Myself,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #33, July.
MacLeod, Bracken “Morgenstern’s Last Act,” Eulogies III.
Malerman, Josh “A Fiddlehead Party on Carpenter’s Farm,” Shadows over Main Street.
Mamatas, Nick “The Twentieth Century Man,” Ghost in the Cogs.
Mamatas, Nick “Χταπόδι Σαλάτα,” Shadows over Main Street.
Mammone, Robert “Refugees, “ Darkest Minds.
Manzetti, Alessandro “Red Monsoon,” (poem) Eden Underground.
Manzetti, Alessandro “The Dead Circus,” (poem) Eden Underground.
Marshall, Helen “Exposure,” Cassilda’s Song.
Marshall, Helen “The Vault of Heaven,” Aickman’s Heirs.
Martin, Anya “Old Tsah-Hov,” Cassilda’s Song.
Martin, Anya “Sensoria,” Giallo Fantastique.
Martin, Gail Z. “Old Nonna,” The Big Bad II.
Maruyama, Kate “Akiko,” Phantasma: Stories.
Massie, Elizabeth “Fly Away Home,” Eulogies III.
Matheson, Richard Christian “133,” nEvermore.
McAllister, Bruce “Dog,” Tor.com March 25.
McAllister, Bruce “DreamPet,” F&SF November/December.
McBride, Michael “Tears of the Dragon,” The Library of the Dead.
McDermott, J.M. “Everything is Haunted,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #32.
McDowell, Ian “Dear Dead Jenny,” October Dreams II.
McFadden, Dennis “God is Good,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine January.
McGroarty, David “McBIRDY,” Strange Tales V.
McGuinness, Reiss “Spinal Piano,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 3.
McGuire, Seanan “Down Deep, Below the Waves,” The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft.
McGuire, Seanan “Something Lost, Something Gained,” Seize the Night.
McHugh, Maura “Family,” Cassilda’s Song.
McMahon, Gary “Silent Waters, Running Deep,” Sharkpunk.
McMahon, Gary “There’s a Bluebird in My Heart,” chapbook.
McMahon, Gary “Unicorn Meat,” SQ Magazine #20.
McMullen, C.S. “The Other-Faced Lamb,” Aurealis #82.
McNeil, Kevin “The Ghost of You Lingers, The Dark #8.
McNeilly, Sara K. “Perfect Mime,” The Journal of Unlikely Coulrophobia 11.5.
McNish, Cliff “Who Will Stop Me Now?” The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories.
Meikle, William “The Banshee,” Carnacki: The Watcher at the Gate.
Meikle, William “The China Dolls,” Carnacki: The Watcher at the Gate.
Melican, Michael, J. “Enfolded,” Aurealis #78.
Metz, Jason “Single Lens Reflection,” Exigencies.
Miéville, China “Listen the Birds,” Conjunctions $64.
Miller, Sam J. “The Heat of Us,” Uncanny Issue #2.
Mills, Daniel “Below the Falls,” Nightscript I.
Mills, Daniel “The Lake,” Aickman’s Heirs.
Millsted, Ian “House Blood,” North by Southwest.
Moan, Lee “The Shoal,” Anything But Zombies.
Mock, Sharon “Notes Found in a Decommissioned Asylum…,”She Walks in Shadows.
Modi, Nissar “The Darkish Man,” The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares.
Mohlere, Virginia M. “A Million Tiny Ropes,” The Journal of Unlikely Coulrophobia.
Moore, Alison “The Harvestman,” Nightjar Press.
Moore, Matt “One Last Drop of Blood to Remember Me By,” Eulogies III.
Moore, Ralph Robert “Learning Not to Smile,” Nightscript I.
Moore, Ralph Robert “Men Wearing Makeup,” Black Static #46.
Moore, Ralph Robert “You Dry Your Tears If They Don’t Work,” Creeping Crawlers.
Moraine, Sunny “A Shadow on the Sky,” Mythic Delirium Jan-March.
Moraine, Sunny “Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams,” Cyborgology June.
Morano, K. Z. “YŪrei no Yado,” Ghosts Revenge.
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia “Blood Alone Remains,” Postscripts to Darkness 6.
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia “Cemetery Man,” Edge of Sundown.
Morris, Edward “Tekeli-Li!,” Beyond the Mountains of Madness.
Morrison, Matthew J. “Sins of Meals Past,” Insert Title Here.
Morrison, Sarah “Flowers of the Chapel,” The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper.
Morton, Lisa “A Girl’s Life,” Innsmouth Nightmares.
Morton, Lisa “The Ogre,” Shadows over Main Street.
Morton, Lisa “Woollen Shirts and Gum Boots,” Blurring the Line.
Muir, Tamsyn “The Deepwater Bride,” F&SF July/August.
Munro, Karen “The Garden,” Nightmare #29, February.
Murakami, Haruki “Kino,” The New Yorker, February 23.
Nadel, Barbara “Our Little Secret,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine February.
Nagamatsu, Sequoia “The Return to Monsterland,” Conjunctions:64 Natural Causes.
Nahrung, Jason “Night Blooming,” SQ Mag 19, March.
Nevill, Adam L. G. “Call the Name,” The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft.
Newman, Kim “Guignol,” (novella) Horrorology.
Nicolay, Scott “The Wizard of OK,” Resonator.
Niveau, Thana “Behind the Wall,” The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories.
Niveau, Thana “Going to the Sun Mountain,” Black Static #49.
Oates, Joyce Carol “The Doll-Master,” The Doll Collection.
Ochse, Weston “The Devil Until the Credits Roll,” Midian Unmade.
Oliver, Jennifer K. “Shuffle,” Kaleidotrope summer.
Oliver, Reggie “Trouble at Botathan,” The Sea of Blood.
Opperman, K. A. “In Fits of Wildest Dreams,” (poem) Spectral Realms No. 3.
Opperman, K.A. “The Blood Garden,” (poem) Spectral Realms 2.
Padgett, Jon “The Secret of Ventriloquism” Lovecraft Ezine #35.
Palahniuk, Chuck “Red Sultan’s Big Boy.” Make Something Up.
Palahniuk, Chuck “The Toad Prince,” Make Something Up.
Palisano, John “Lucky Chuck Takes the Sunshine Express,” Whispers from the Abyss 2.
Parker, Lehua “Red,” Old Scratch and Owl Hoots.
Parker, Rosalie “Selkie—A Scottish Idyll,” Supernatural Tales 29, spring.
Partridge, Norman “Special Collections,” The Library of the Dead.

 

Aickman, Robert “ The Coffin House,” The Strangers.

Aickman, Robert “ The Strangers,” (novella) The Strangers.

Allan, Nina “A Change of Scene,” Aickman’s Heirs.

Allen, Mike “Sad Wisps of Empty Smoke,” (poem) Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology, Jan.

Anderton, Joanne “2B,” Insert Title Here.

Apter, Andrew “ The Man Who Loved Flies,” Strange Tales V.

Arkenberg, Megan “And This is the Song it Sings,” Nightmare, August #35.

Arkenberg, Megan “What Hands Like Our Can Do,” The Dark #10.

Ashe, Paula D. “Carry On, Carrion,” Eulogies III.

Avery, Simon “Going Back to the World,” Black Static #44.

Bacon, Stephen “Bandersnatch,” Black Static #48.

Bacon, Stephen “It Came from the Ground,” Darkest Minds.

Bacon, Stephen “The Cambion,” Cemetery Dance #72.

Baker, Matthew “Proof of the Monsters,” Conjunctions:64 Natural Causes.

Balder, Bo “A House of Her Own,” F&SF Sept/October.

Ballingrud, Nathan “The Visible Filth,” (novella) This is Horror! Chapbook.

Balog, Jonathan “Stay Away from the Accordion Girl,” Chilling Ghost Short Stories.

Barnhill, Kelly “Those Who Remain,” Breakout, Postscripts 34/35.

Barron, Laird “Don’t Make Me Assume My Ultimate Form,” Cthulhu Fhtagn!

Barron, Laird “Fear Sun, Innsmouth Nightmares.

Barron, Laird “Strident Caller,” Whispers from the Abyss 2.

Barron, Laird “The Blood in My Mouth,” The Madness of Cthulhu Two.

Barron, Laird “We Smoke the Northern Lights,” The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft.

Bartlett, Matthew M. “Rangel,” Dim Shores July.

Bartlett, Thomas St. John “Cheap Medicine,” Rolling Darkness Review 2015.

Baxter, Alan “The Chart of the Vagrant Mariner,” F&SF January/February.

Beck, Zeina Hashem “Terror/Mathematics,” (poem) One Throne Magazine February.

Bennett, Toby “Sacrament of Tears,” African Monsters.

Bestwick, Simon “Horn of the Hunter,” The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Birch, David “Spinnentier,” Creeping Crawlers.

Blackwell, Laura “Bitter Perfume,” She Walks in Shadows.

Boston, Bruce “A Trader on the Border of the Mutant Rain Forest,” Daily SF August.

Boston, Bruce “She Walks in Yellow to Please Her Lord,” (poem) Star*Line, summer.

Bowes, Richard “The Duchess and the Ghost,” Fantasy 29, Queers Destroy Fantasy.

Bradley, Andrea “Opportunity Knocks,” Phobos #3.

Braunbeck, Gary A. “Paper Cuts,” Seize the Night.

Brazos, Rhoads “Omniscopic,” Death’s Realm.

Bright, Matthew “Golden Hair, Red Lips,” Queers Destroy Horror.

Broaddus, Maurice “Dance of Bones,” Walkers with the Dawn.

Brown, Rebecca L. “Her Mother’s Fur,” Mark of the Beast.

Bruce, Sadie “Little Girls in Bone Museums,” F&SF March/April.

Bryant, Edward “Marginal Ha’nts,” Nightmares Unhinged.

Bulkin, Nadia “Seven Minutes in Heaven,” Aickman’s Heirs.

Bulkin, Nadia “Violet is the Color of Your Energy,” She Walks in Shadows.

Burton, Tara Isabella “The Taxidermist’s Tale,” Strange Tales V.

Cacek, P.D. “Memento,” LampLight September.

Cadieux, Keith “Donner Party,” Canada Noir.

Cadigan, Pat “Chilling,” Horrorology.

Cadigan, Pat “In Case of Zebras” The Doll Collection.

Callaghan, Tina “The Underfolk,” October Dreams II.

Cameron, Dana “Whiskey and Light,” Seize the Night.

Campbell, J.R. “To One Table,” Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places.

Campbell, Ramsey “Her Face,” The Burning Maiden 2.

Carpenter, Dustin “Diamond Widow,” Nightmares Unhinged.

Carroll, Mark “Teeth,” Not Your Average Monster.

Cataneo, Emily B. “Hungry Ghosts,” Black Static #45.

Cato, Beth “The City,” (poem) Mythic Delirium October-December.

Chambers, Selena “The Neurastheniac,” Cassilda’s Song.

Chaon, Dan and Barry, Lynda “Mrs. Popkin,” Seize the Night.

Chislett, Michael “The Changelings,” In the City of Ghosts.

Chizmar, Richard “Last Words,” The Burning Maiden 2.

Cisco, Michael “Infestations,” ,” Aickman’s Heirs.

Clark, Stephen “Lithe Tenant,” Soliloquy for Pan.

Cluley, Ray “Knock-Knock,” Probably Monsters.

Cluley, Ray “Mary, Mary,” The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Coates, Justin “Breach,” Chilling Horror Short Stories.

Cole, Adrian “Running with the Tide,” Creeping Crawlers.

Coleman, Emma “The Glasshouse,” Breakout, Postscripts 34/35.

Comtois, Pierre V. “Second Death,” Beyond the Mountains of Madness.

Congreve, Bill ‘The Pit,” Cthulhu: Deep Down Under.

Connelly, John “Razorshins,” Black Static #47/Night Music.

Connelly, John “The Blood of the Lamb,” Night Music.

Connelly, John “The Lamia,” Night Music.

Constantine, Storm “From the Cold Dark Sea,” Dreams from the Witch House.

Cooper, James “Coffee, Black,” Human Pieces.

Cooper, James “Forever Boys,” Breakout, Postscripts 34/35.

Cooper, James “Texas,” Human Pieces.

Cooper, James “The River Remembers,” Human Pieces.

Corner, Jason “Letters to Logroth,” The Big Bad II.

Cornford, Laurence J. “Gedney,” Beyond the Mountains of Madness.

Cotronis, George “Blackbird Lullabye,” XIII.

Cotter, John “After the Storm,” New Genre, spring, issue 7.

Cottier, PS “The Fruit of Her Hands,” (poem) Midnight Echo 11.

Couzens, Gary “Dog’s Life,” Out Stack and Other Places.

Cowdrey, Albert E. “Portrait of a Witch,” F&SF January/February.

Cowdrey, Albert E. “The Laminated Man,” F&SF May/June.

Craddock, Brian “The Angel of Isisford,” Midian Unmade.

Daniel, Tony “Hell Hounds,” Onward, Drake.

Dawson, Sam “The Weathervane,” The Eleventh Black Book of Horror.

De Burgh, Dave-Brendan “Taraab and Terror in Zanzibar,” African Monsters.

De Nikolits, Lisa “Eve Ago,” Postscripts to Darkness 6.

de Pierres, Marianne “Salvatrix,” Insert Title Here.

Dembo, Arinn “Memphre-Magog,” Gods, Memes and Monsters.

Denmark, Sean “In the Stairwell,” Jersey Devil Press.

Devenport, Emily “Dr. Polingyouma’s Machine,” Uncanny Issue #3.

Devlin, Malcolm “Taximan Rat,” Gods, Memes and Monsters.

Devlin, Malcolm “Two Brothers,” Aickman’s Heirs.

Doig, James “Malware,” Friends of the Dead.

Doig, James “The Land Where Fairies Linger,” Friends of the Dead.

Downum, Amanda “Spore,” Dreams from the Witch House.

Drake, Ennis “We Can Only Become Monsters,” Giallo Fantastique.

Dreadful, Jilly “De Deabus Minorbus Exterioris Theomagicae” She Walks in Shadows.

Due, Tananarive “Vanishings,” Ghost Summer.

Duffy, Frank “Transfers,” Hungry Celluloid.

Duffy, Steve “Even Clean Hands Can Do Damage,” Supernatural Ta, 30, Autumn.

Eckhardt, Jason C. “The Hollow Sky” The Madness of Cthulhu Two.

Edie, Elise Fornier “You-Go-Back,” Strange Tales V.

Edwards, Malon “The Half Dark Promise,” Shimmer 23 January.

Elliott, Tobin “Prison Break,” Expiration Date.

Emelumadu, Chikodili “Bush Baby,” African Monsters.

Emelumadu, Chikodili “Soup,” One Throne Magazine June.

Etchison, Dennis “Don’t Move,” F&SF Sept/October.

Evans, Julia “Adam, and Laura,” Black Candies Surveillance.

Evenson, Brian “Any Corpse,” Penumbrae.

Evenson, Brian “Seaside Town,” Aickman’s Heirs.

Fahey, Tracy “Under the Whitethorn,” Faed.

Fahey, Tracy “Walking the Borderlines,” Darkest Minds.

Fawver, Kurt “Marrowvale,” The Second Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Fennell, Megan “Kakashi and Crow,” Scarecrow.

Ferraz, Rafaela F. “The Lady of the House of Mirrors,” Daughters of Frankenstein.

Ferrell, Keith “Be Seated,” Nightmares Unhinged.

Files, Gemma “Calving” (poem) Spectral Realms 2.

Files, Gemma “Every Hole in the Earth We Will Claim..”Dreams from the Witch House.

Files, Gemma “Guising,” October Dreams II.

Files, Gemma “Hairwork,” She Walks in Shadows.

Files, Gemma “Twilight State,” Genius Loci.

Fischer, Jason “The Dog Pit,” Cthulhu: Deep Down Under.

Fleming, Patrick “A Nothingale,” Canada Noir.

Fletcher, Tom “Desert Stories,” Congregation of Innocents.

Fletcher, Tom “The Home,” Chapbook. Nightjar Press.

Flinthart, Dirk “A Friend in the Trade,” Striking Fire.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Thyme Fiend,” Tor.com March 11.

Ford, Jeffrey “Word Doll,” The Doll Collection.

Forman, K. Scott “The Stranger Within,” Old Scratch and Owl Hoots.

Forth, John “Molli & Julli,” The Eleventh Black Book of Horror.

Fortier, Mary Genevieve “In Stately Pious Prayer, “ (poem) Ghosts Revenge.

Foster, John C. “Burial Suit,” Death’s Realm.

Franks, Jason “Darkness Beyond,” Cthulhu: Deep Down Under.

Fultz, John R. “Anno Domini Azathoth,” That Is Not Dead.

Futter, Ian “The Writer,” (poem) Spectral Realms 2.

Gallagher, Siobhan “You Are Dead, Sir,” Phobos #3.

Gallagher, Steve “Heroes and Villains,” The Doll Collection.

Gavin, Richard “Neithernor,” Aickman’s Heirs.

German, Wade “Occult Agency,” (poem) Spectral Realms 2.

Gerrold, David “Monsieur,” F&SF Sept/October.

Glover, J. T. “Hunger Full and Lean,” The Lovecraft eZine 34.

Glover, John “Mercy’s Armistice,” Big Bad II.

Golaski, Adam “Wild Dogs,” Supernatural Tales, 30, Autumn.

Goodfellow, Cody “Garden of the Gods,” Beyond the Mountains of Madness.

Goodfellow, Cody “Purity Ball,” Flesh Like Smoke.

Goodfellow, Cody “Red Americans,” Whispers from the Abyss 2.

Goodfellow, Cody “The Anatomy Lesson,” The Madness of Cthulhu.

Goodfellow, Cody “The Green Revolution,” Cthulhu Fhtagn!

Gorman, Amelia “Bring the Moon to Me,” She Walks in Shadows.

Grant, Helen “30” Supernatural Tales 30, Autumn.

Grau, T.E. Mr. Lupus,” Mark of the Beast.

Gray, Amelia “Away From,” Gutshot.

Gray, Amelia “Gentleman,” Gutshot.

Gregorio, Michael “Kosher,” The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper.

Gresh, Lois “Werewolf Root Canal,” Mark of the Beast.

Gresh, Lois H. “Of Queens and Pawns,” That is Not Dead.

Grey, Orrin “Guignol,” The Burning Maiden 2.

Grey, Orrin “Painted Monsters,” Painted Monsters.

Grey, Orrin “Programmed to Receive,” Resonator.

Grey, Orrin “Strange Beast,” Painted Monsters.

Grey, Orrin “The Red Church,” Giallo Fantastique.

Grifant, K. C. “What the Storm Brings,” The Lovecraft eZine 34.

Gross, Dave “The Wendigo,” Gods, Memes and Monsters.

Guignard, Eric “Car Trip Bingo,” SQ Mag 22.

Guignard, Eric J. “Last Night,” Mark of the Beast.

Haber, Karen “On the Shores of Destruction,” The Madness of Cthulhu Two.

Halsall, Rachel “Hunting,” Wild Things.

Halterman, Adam “Broads and Batwings,” Phobos #3.

Hannett, Lisa L. “A Shot of Salt Water,” The Dark #8.

Hannett, Lisa L. “Consorting with Filth,” Blurring the Line.

Hannett, Lisa L. “The Canary,” The Dark #10.

Hanson, Michael H. “Dusty Tears,” (poem) Dark Parchments.

Hanson, Michael H. “Flock of Angels,” (poem) Dark Parchments.

Hargadon, Stephen “The Toilet,” Black Static #49.