Harland, Richard “His Shining Day,” Dreaming in the Dark.

Harris, Joanne “In Memorium,” Dead Letters.

Hartley, David “Pigskin,” Black Static #55 November-December.

Hayes, Martin “Wellaway,” Uncertainties Volume I.

Headley, Maria Dahvana “Little Widow,” What the #@&% is That?

Headley, Maria Dahvana “See the Unseeable, Know the Unknowable,” Lightspeed 76.

Henderson, Samantha “The Lark Ascending,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Hill, Joe “Snapshot, 1988,” (novella) Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Hill, Susan “Alice Baker,” (novella) The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories.

Hill, Susan “The Front Room,” The Travelling Bag and Other Ghostly Stories.

Hirshberg, Glen “Freedom is Space for the Spirit,” Tor.com April 6.

Hirshberg, Glen “India Blue,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Hockey, Matthew J. “Nikukinchaka,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Hodge, Brian “Mommy’s Little Man,” Dark Fuse Magazine November 4.

Hodge, Brian “The Weight of the Dead,” Tor.com June 1.

Hook, Andrew “The Day My Heart Stood Still,” The Dragons of the Night.

Howard, John “A Gap in Society,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Vol. 3.

Howard, Kat “The Sound of Salt and Sea,” Uncanny 10.

Howells, Annika “Obsidian River,” Aurealis #96.

Hughes, Rhys “How Gangrene Was My Sally,” Brutal Pantomimes.

Jackson, Jennifer Ruth “Sin Eater,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Jacob, Charlee & Addison, Linda “Welcome to the Mercy Museum,(poem)In Painfreak.

Jakeman, Jane “Cutty Dyer,” Supernatural Tales 33.

Jett, Susan “Eyes Like Pearls,” Were-.

Johnston, Michael “The Tree,” Aurealis #93

Johnstone, Carole “Wetwork,” Black Static #52.

Johnstone, Tom “Mum and Dad and the Girl from the Flats…” Supernatural Tales 33.

Joiner, Mat “Imago,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Birdfather,” Black Static #51.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Eternal Troutland,” Children of Lovecraft.

Jones, Stephen Graham “Some Wait,” The Starlit Wood.

Jones, Stephen Graham “The Night Cyclist,” Tor.com, September 21.

Kadrey, Richard “The Secret of Insects,” Children of Lovecraft.

Kardos, Michael “Digits,” Mississippi Noir.

Kaschock, Kirsten “And We, Spectators Always, Everywhere,” Dead Letters.

Keevil, Tyler “Foul is Fair,” Black Static #50, July/August.

Kemper, Erinn “By the River She Wakes,” The Beauty of Death.

Kemper, Erinn L. “ A Flash of Red,” Chiral Mad 3.

Ketchum, Jack “Those Rockports Won’t Get You to Heaven,” Borderlands 6.

Khaw, Cassandra “And in Our Daughter, We Find a Voice,” The Dark #18, November.

Khaw, Cassandra “Hammers on Bone,” (novella) A Tor.com Book

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Bedtime Story,” Sirenia Digest 126.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Excerpts for An Eschatology Quadrille,”Childrenof Lovecraft.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Far From Any Shore,” Black Wings V.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Study for an Electronaut’s Ovid (AD 2050),” Sirenia Digest 120.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “The Line BetweentheDevil’sTeeth,(Murder Ballad 10” S.Digest 130.

Kiernan, Caitlín R. “Whisper Road (Murder Ballad No. 9),” Sirenia Digest 125.

King, Michelle Ann “My Sister, the Fairy Princess,” Black Static #52, May/June.

King, Stephen “The Music Room,” In Sunlight and in Shadow.

Kirk, Brian “Picking Splinters,” Gutted.

Kiste, Gwendolyn “All the Red Apples Have Withered to Gray,” Shimmer 30 March.

Kiste, Gwendolyn “Reasons I Hate My Big Sister,” Nightscript II.

Knox, Benjamin & Bennett, Toby “DreamShock,” The Lovecraft ezine #38.

Kotlarczyk, Adam “Outbreak,” SQ#26 May.

Krasnoff, Barbara “Sabbath Wine,” Clockwork Phoenix 5.

Laben, Carrie “Postcards from Natalie,” The Dark, #14 May.

Laidlaw, Marc “The Finest Full Flowering,” Nightmare #45 June.

Lanagan, Margo “When I Lay Frozen,” The Starlit Wood.

Langan, John “Anchor,” (novella) Autumn Cthulhu.

Langan, John “To See, To Be Seen,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Langan, John “What Is Lost, What Is Given Away,” What the #@&% is That?

Larson, Richard “Extraction Request,” Clarkesworld January #112.

LaValle, Victor “The Ballad of Black Tom,” (novella) A Tor.com Book

Lee, Edward “The Night Sitter,” Into Painfreak.

LeFanu, Sarah “Fran Nan’s Story,” Uncertainties Volume 1.

Leslie, V.H. “Man of the House,” Black Static #50, July/August.

Leslie, V.K. “Hermaness,” Great British Horror 1, Green and Pleasant Land.

Lester, Mike “Black-Eyed Susan,” The Beauty of Death.

Levy, Robert “Conversion,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Levy, Robert “DST (Fall Back),” Autumn Cthulhu.

Liebowitz, Sandi “Max in the Wolf-Suit,” (poem) Kaleidotrope spring.

Lin, Jessica May “Red Mask,” Shimmer 30 March.

Littlewood, Alison “Meet Me at the Frost Fair,” A Midwinter Entertainment.

Llewellyn, Livia “ The Low, Dark Edge of Life,” Nightmare #51 December.

Llewellyn, Livia “In the Court of King Cupressaceae,” Furnace.

Lloyd, Rebecca “Fetch,” Ragman & Other Family Curses.

Lloyd, Rebecca “For Two Songs,” Ragman & Other Family Curses.

Lynes, Gethin A. “Cymothoa Cthulhii,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Maberry, Jonathan “Mystic,” Peel Back the Skin.

Machado, Carmen “My Body, Herself,” Uncanny 12.

Mackintosh, Paul St. John “The First Circus of the New Year,” Black Propaganda.

MacLean, Lynne “Storm Wife,” On Spec #101.

Malerman, Josh “I Can Taste the Blood, Vision I” (novella) I Can Taste the Blood.

Malerman, Josh “The Givens Sensor Board,” Lost Signals.

Malik, Usman T. “In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Mamatas, Nick “The Great Armored Train,” Dark Discoveries 35, summer.

Manalili, Jennifer “Hunger,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Mangan, Amelia “The Edifice of Dust,” The Hyde Hotel.

Manuel, Derek “Five Things Successful Clowns Must Do,” Clowns: The Unlikely …

Manzetti, Alessandro “Deadwood Reloaded,” The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly.

Manzetti, Alessandro “I Am the Fire,” (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Manzetti, Alessandro “Long Hair’s Inferno,” The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly.

Manzetti, Alessandro “Obsessed with Autumn,” (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Marr, Melissa “The Maiden Thief,” Tor.com January 27.

Marshall, Helen “Caro in Carno,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Martin, Valerie “Bromley Hall,” Conjunctions 67: Other Aliens.

Masterson, Vincent “Linger Longer,” Masters Review February.

Matheson, Richard Christian “Infomercial!,” Zoopraxis.

Matheson, Richard Christian “Sea of Atlas,” Zoopraxis.                 

Matsuura, Thersa “The Carp-Faced Boy,” The Beauty of Death.

McAllister, Bruce “Bringing Them Back,” Asimov’s SF February.

McAllister, Bruce “Killer,” F&SF July/August.

McAllister, Bruce “The Blue House,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

McDermott, Kirstyn “Burnt Sugar,” Dreaming in the Dark.

McDonald, Sandra “The Monster of 1928,” Asimov’s SF February.

McDonald, Sandra “The People in the Building,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, Oct./Nov.

McDonald, Sandra “When You Work for the Old Ones,” Nightmare #50 November.

McGuire, Seanan “#ConnellyHouse #Weshouldntbehere,” What the #@&% is That?

McGuire, Seanan “In the Desert Like a Bone,” The Starlit Wood.

McGuire, Seanan “Ye Highlands and Ye Lowlands,” Uncanny 10.

McHugh, Maura “A Rebellious House,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

McHugh, Maura “The Light at the Centre,” Uncertainties Volume 1.

McKenna, Claire “The Autumn Dog Cannot Live to Spring,” In Your Face.

McKinney, Joe “The Shed,” Peel Back the Skin.

Meikle, William “ The Lady of the Minch,” Peel Back the Skin.

Meikle, William “A True Telling of the Terror That Came to…” Heroes of Red Hook.

Meikle, William “Sugar Rush,” Dread Shadows in Paradise.

Millard, Adam “He Waits on the Upland,”Great British Horror 1,Green&Pleasant Land.

Miller, Kayla “Today We Go to Noah’s Ark,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Mills, Daniel “A Shadow Passing,” Autumn Cthulhu.
Malerman, Josh “The Bigger Bedroom,” Chiral Mad 3.

Minnion, Keith “Down There,” Cemetery Dance, #73.

Mirabella, Richard “Mold,” One Teen Story Volume IV, Issue V.

Miskowski, S. P. “Muscadines,” Chapbook.

Miskowski, S. P. “Somnabule,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Miskowski, S. P. “Water Main,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Montreuil, Zacharie “”All Roads,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Moore, James A. “In the Woods Somewhere,” Out of Tune Book 2.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Hoodelay,” Ghost Highways.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Imperfect Boy,” You Can Never Spit It All Out.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Nearness,” Nightscript II.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Not Everything Has a Name,” Black Static #54.Sept/Oct.

Moore, Ralph Robert “Trying to Get Back to Nonchalant,” Black Static #52, May/June.

Morgan, Chris “Dark Furnaces,” Something Remains.

Morris, K. L. “The Wombly,” Shimmer 32, July.

Morris, Mark “Eating Disorder,” Wrapped in Skin.

Morris, Mark “Full Up,” Black Static #51.

Morris, Mark “The Complicit,” Wrapped in Skin.

Morton, Lisa “Erasure,” Cemetery Riots.

Morton, Lisa “Trigger Fate,” The 3^rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Mundy, John J. “Redux,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Murphy, John P. “The Liar,” (novella) F&SF March/April.

Myers, D. L. “Dark House of Hunger,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Nahrung, Jason “A House in the Blue,” In Your Face.

Navarro, Yvonne “Superheated,” Peel Back the Skin.

Neal, Harmony “Dare,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Nelscott, Kris “Still Life 1931,” In Sunlight or in Shadow.

Ness, Mari “After Midnight,” (poem)Mythic Delirium October-December 3.2.

Nickle, David “The Caretakers,” Tor.com January 20.

Nickle, David “The Long Dream,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Nickle, David “The Parable of the Cylinder,” Canadian Notes & Queries 95, spring.

Niveau, Thana “Joining In,” Ghost Highways.

Niveau, Thana “Wasps,” Shock Totem 10.

North, Bennett “Smooth Stones and Empty Bones,” F&SF January/February.

O’Leary, P. R. “The Howard Family Tradition,” Weirdbook #32.

Oates, Joyce Carol “Big Mama,” EQMM March/April.

Oates, Joyce Carol “The Crawl Space,” EQMM Sept./Oct.

Oates, Joyce Carol “The Woman in the Window,” In Sunlight or in Shadow.

Ochse, Weston & Wellington, David “The Lessons of Room 19,” Urban Allies.

Ogawa, Yukimi “Kokuri’s Palace,” Asian Monsters.

Oliver, Reggie “Love at Second Sight,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Opperman, K. A. “Medusa,” (poem) The Audient Void No. 1.

Opperman, K.A. “Among the Gargoyles,” (poem) Spectral Realms 4.

Palisano, John “Long Walk Home,” All That Withers.

Parker, K.J. “Priest’s Hole,” (novella) Five Stories High.

Parrish, Marie Johnson “Final Girls,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Partridge, Norman “Backbite,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Pastorella, Bob “Cocoa,” Borderlands 6.

Pate, Gavin “Red House,” Nightmare, July #46.

Pelayo, Cynthia “Forjadura,” (poem) Poems of My Night.

Pelayo, Cynthia “Una Pesadilla,”(poem) Poems of My Night.

Peters, Brock “Like Faltering, Lisping Tongues,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Pierce, Cameron “Asseblief,” Dark Discoveries #33.

Pietersen, David “The Left Hand of Aux-Cevoires,” The Audient Void No. 1.

Pinsker, Sarah “Talking to Dead People,” F&SF September/October.

Pinsker, Sarah “Under One Roof,” Uncanny 12

Popkes, Steven “The Sweet Warm Earth,” F&SF Sept/October.

Power, Kit “Like a Charm,” Kzine 14.

Probert, John Llewellyn “The Missing,” Something Remains.

Ptacek, Kathryn “City Girl,” Fright Mare.

Ptacek, Kathryn “The I of the Beholder,” The Beauty of Death.

Pugmire, W. H, “A Gentleman of Darkness,” Heroes of Red Hook.

Pugmire,” W. H. “The Ghoul’s Dilemma,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “Trick…or the Other One,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Abnett, Dan “The Beams of the Sun,” Out of Tune Book Two.

Addison, Linda “Shadow Rainbow and Other Fragile Types,” (poem) Dark Disc. #34

Alering, Alisa “We Will Hold,” Mythic Delirium April-June.

Allan, Nina “Maggots,” (novella) Five Stories High.

Allred, Rebecca J. “The Last Plague Doctor,” Borderlands 6.

Amundsen, Erik “The Red Round Eye of War,” Go Now January.

Anderson, Michael Paul “The Agonizing Guilt of Relief,” Chiral Mad 3.

Arkenberg, Megan “Palingenesis,” Shimmer 29 January.

Avery, Simon” A Very Lonely Revolution,” Black Static #55 November-December.

Bacon, Stephen “Happy Sands,” The Dragons of the Night.

Badger, Dora “Counting Mississippis,” Kaleidotrope winter 2016.

Barber, Richard Farren “Government Work,”  The 3^rd Spectral Book of Horror Stories.

Bark, Jasper “Quiet Places,” (novella) Great British Horror 1,Green and Pleasant Land.

Barker, David “The Crawling Dead,” The Audient Void No. 1.

Barron, Laird “A Clutch,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Barron, Laird “An Atlatl,” (novella) Limbus Inc. Book III.

Barron, Laird “Andy Kaufman Creeping Through the Trees,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Barron, Laird “Mobility,” What the #@&% is That?

Barron, Laird “Oblivion Mode,” Children of Lovecraft.

Barron, Laird “Tomahawk Park Survivor’s Raffle,” (novella) Swift to Chase.

Bartlett, Matthew M. “No Abiding Place on Earth,” Nightscript II.

Bates, Jeremy “Box of Bones,” self-published.

Bell, Brandon H. “The Teratologist’s Brother,” Apex April.

Bell, Peter “Blackberry Time,” The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows 3.

Bell, Peter “Last of the Line,” Phantasms.

Bell, Peter “Southwold,” Phantasms.

Bell, Peter “The Swing,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Bell, Peter “Walking with the Cross,” Phantasms.

Benedict, A. K. “Misericord,” Great British Horror 1,Green and Pleasant Land.

Berry, Jedediah “Houk, Emily “Hansel, Gretel, Grendel,” Conjunctions 66: Affinity.

Bestwick, Simon “Wrath of the Deep,” The Hyde Hotel.

Bissett, Carina “Swimming with the Shark Boys,”(poem)Mythic Delirium April-June 2.4.

Black, Archie “The Wall,” BFS Horizons #3.

Black, Carlington “The Urge,” At the Edge.

Boatman, Michael “Across the Black Plains,” 13.

Boatman, Michael “Christmastime in Zombietown,” 13.

Bolander, Brooke “Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies,” Uncanny

Bonfanti, Daniele “Game,” (novella) The Beauty of Death.

Boomer, Clinton J. “The Sky Isn’t Blue,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Booth, III, Max “Blood Dust,” Chiral Mad 3.

Boskovich, Desirina “The Great Dying of the Holocene,” Tomorrow’s Cthulhu.

Boston & Manzetti, “Sandoval’s Nightmare Sampler,”(poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Boston, Bruce “Fade Away (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Boston, Bruce & Manzetti, Alessandro “Slade, Mary And Pet,” (poem) Sacrificial Nights.

Boston, Bruce and Simon, Marge “Cold Finale,” The Beauty of Death.

Bourelle, Andrew “Little Healers,” Swords & Steam Short Stories.

Bowes, Richard “Lunching with the Sphinxes,” Grendelsong June.

Brantley, Avalon “Window Widows,” A Midwinter Entertainment.

Braum, Daniel “How To Make Love and Not Turn to Stone,” The Beauty of Death.

Braum, Daniel “The Night Marchers,” The Night Marchers.

Brown, Simon “Moonshine,” Dreaming in the Dark.

Burgess, Tony “Bad Lieutenant,” Lost Signals.

Burke, Chesya “They Deal in Pain, But Pleasure is Better,” Into Painfreak.

Burnett, Jeff “Borean Soul,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Butler, Robert Olen “Soir Bleu,” In Sunlight and in Shadow.

Cade, Octavia “Carnival Microbial,” Grendelsong Issue 2.

Cadieux, Keith “Stuck,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Caine, Rachel “I Lay Stretched Out On Your Grave,” Out of Tune Book 2.

Campbell, Ramsey “Know Your Code,” Chiral Mad 3.

Campbell, Ramsey “The Wrong Game,” Dead Letters.

Capria, Alana I. “The Mother Chase,” Turn Into Ash Volume 1.

Carrol, Taye “Childhood’s Dread,” Weirdbook #32.

Carroll, Jonathan “Plane Light, Plane Bright,” Conjunctions May.

Carroll, Siobhan “Thermidor,” Eternal Frankenstein.

Cashmore, S. M. “Waiting for Breakfast,” Supernatural Tales 32.

Castle, Mort “Prayer,” Chiral Mad 3.

Castro, Adam-Troy “Four Haunted Houses,” Nightmare #48, September.

Castro, Adam-Troy “The Old Horror Writer,” Nightmare #44, May.

Chabin, Matthew “Father of Dread,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Chan, Eliza “Datsue-Ba,” Asian Monsters.

Child, Michelle “Narco,” At the Edge.

Chizmar, Richard “A Long December,” (novella) A Long December.

Chizmar, Richard “Ditch Treasures,” A Long December.

Chokshi, Roshani “A Trade at the Fox Wedding,” Mythic Delirium April –June 2.4

Chronister, Kay “The Fifth Gable,” Shimmer 29 January.

Cisco, Michael “The Righteousness of Conical Men,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Clark, G.O. “Postcard from the Night Desert,” (poem) Spectral Realms #5.

Clay, K. S “Bad Luck,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Cluley, Ray “Housekeeping,” The Hyde Hotel.

Cluley, Ray “Sideways,” Interzone 266, Sept/October.

Cole, Cait “Dollhouse,” Black Candies: Gross and Unlikeable.

Collings, Michael R. “Catacomb,” (poem) Corona Obscura.

Collings, Michael R. “Evil,” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Moon,” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Obsession (2),” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Prophecy,” (poem) Ibid.

Collings, Michael R. “Witch,” (poem) Ibid.

Colman, Keith “A Thing Like Rage,” Supernatural Tales 33.

Cormick, Craig “The Lost Boys,” In Your Face.

Cotronis, George “Darkhorse Actual,” Lost Signals.

Coupland, Krishan “When You Lived Inside the Walls,” The Masters Review online.

Cratty, Micah “Goon,” Mid-American Review, Vol. XXXVII, #1.

Crich, Kelda “Jorōgumo,” Weirdbook #32.

Crow, Richard “Waiting Room,” The Shadow over Portage and Main.

Daegmorgan, Raven “Winter Things,” The Lovecraft ezine #38.

Davis, Amanda C. “Voices without Voices,Words Without Words,”Cemetery Dance #73.

Dawes, Sue “Artifice,” Bloody Hull.

Dawson, Delilah S. “The First Blood of Poppy Dupree,” Upside Down.

Dejasu, Barry Lee “The Place of Bones,” Wicked Witches.

DeMeester, Kristi “All the World, When it is Thin,” The Dark #11 February.

DeMeester, Kristi “In the Dark, Quiet Places,” Nightscript II.

DeMeester, Kristi “The Dream Eaters,” Split Tongues chapbook.

DeMeester, Kristi “The Rim of the World,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Denfeld, Rene “The Sturgeon Queen,” City of Weird.

Dent, Karen and Dent, Roxanne E. “The Demon of Spitalfields,” Cemetery Riots.

Dermatis, Dayle A. “Queen and Fool,” Clowns: The Unlikely Coulrophobia Remix.

Devlin, Malcolm “Breadcrumbs,” Interzone #264, May-June.

Devlin, Malcolm “White Elephants,” Nightscript II.

Di Orazio, Paulo “Carousel Riser,” The Monster, the Bad and the Ugly.

Dikeman, Kris “Miskatonic Nightmare,” Miskatonic Nightmares.

Dikeman, Kris “Thimble Hearts and Tamarind Eyes,” Kill Those Damn Cats.

Dorei, Megan “Glass,” Dystopia Utopia.

Dowling, Terry “Midnight in the Graffiti Tunnel,” Dreaming in the Dark.

Downum, Amanda “The Sea Inside,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Dries, Aaron “Love Amongst the Redback Spiders,” Tales from the Lake vol. 2.

Edelman, Scott “Man Without the Blue Balloon, Woman…,”The Dragons of the Night.

Edelman, Scott “The Perilous Stuff,” Chiral Mad 3.

Eikamp, Rhonda “Some Pictures of Monsters,” The Dark 15.

Enriquez, Mariana “Spiderweb,” The New Yorker Dec 19 &26.

Erdelac, Edward M. “Beyond the Black Arcade,” Heroes of Red Hook.

Etchison, Dennis “Princess,” Nightmare #41, February.

Etchison, Dennis “The Man Who Knew What Time It Was,” Cemetery Riots.

Evenson, Brian “Click,” Granta #133/A Collapse of Horses.

Evenson, Brian “Smear,” Conjunctions 67: Other Aliens.

Everington, James “A Glimpse of Red,”Great British Horror 1,Green andPleasant Land.

Faherty, JG “The Lazarus Effect,” Cemetery Dance #74/75.

Fawver, Kurt “Special Collections,” F&SF November/December.

Files, Gemma “Caligarism,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Files, Gemma “Ghost Pressure,” What the #@&% is That?

Fitch, John Paul “Principal,” Burrow Month of Horror.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Blameless,” A Natural History of Hell.

Ford, Jeffrey “The Thousand Eyes,” The Starlit Wood.

Foster, Alan Foster “Castleweep,” What the #@&% is That?

Foster, John C. “Armageddon Baby,” Lost Signals.

Fowler, Christopher “Spine,” Interzone #263, March-April.

Fowler, Christopher “Wonders to Come,” Dead Letters.

Fracassi, Philip “Altar,” Dunhams Manor Press chapbook.

Friesner, Esther M. “Woman in the Reeds,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May.

Fulz, John R. “The River Flows to Nowhere,” Weirdbook 33.

Gardner, Cate “Blood Moth Kiss,” Shadow Moths.

Gardner, Cate “In the Macabre Theatre of Nightshade Place,” The Dragons of the Night.

Gardner, Cate “We Make Our Own Monsters Here,” Shadow Moths.

Gavin, Richard “Breathing Black Angels,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Gavin, Richard “Mare’s Nest,” Sylvan Dread.

Gavin, Richard “Tending the Mists,” Sylvan Dread.

Gavin, Richard “Thistle Latch,” Sylvan Dread.

Gerrold, David “The Thing on the Shelf,” F&SF July/August.

Gilman, Laura Anne “First Dance,” Out of Tune Book 2.

Glasser, Lynnea “Service,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Golaski, Adam “Ruby,” Uncertainties Volume II.

Goldstein, Lisa “Sawing,” Nightmare #44, May.

Gonzalez, Michael Paul “How the Light Gets In,” Lost Signals.

Goodfellow, Cody “Snakeladder,” Black Wings V.

Goodfellow, Cody “The Free School,” Dim Shores chapbook.

Goodfellow, Coty “Archons,” Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales.

Goss, Theodora “Red As Blood and White As Bone,” Tor.com, May 4.

Gowin, Amanda “Cellar’s Dog,” Gutted.

Grant, John “Everything Finishes,” The Dragons of the Night.

Grant, John “The Second Runner,” The Dragons of the Night.

Grey, Orrin “Blackstone: A Hollywood Gothic,” The Madness of Dr. Caligari.

Grey, Orrin “Mortensen’s Muse” Children of Lovecraft.

Grey, Orrin “The Well and the Wheel,” Autumn Cthulhu.

Griffin, Michael “Endure with a Dying Frame,” The Lovecraft ezine, #38.

Griffin, Michael “The Black Vein Runs Deep,” The Lure of Devouring Light.

Griffin, Michael “The Human Alchemy,” Eternal Frankenstein.

Griffin, Michael “The Jewel in the Eye,” The Lure of Devouring Light.

Grimm, Marcus “Catch Me If You Can,” The Lovecraft ezine #38.

Grimwood, Terry “The Dark Above the Fair,” Something Remains.

Guffey, Robert “The Wedding Photographer,” The Dragons of the Night.

Guignard, Eric “The Inveterate Establishment of Daddano & Co. Nightscript II.

Hall, Steven “The Green Letter,” Dead Letters.

Hamilton, Paul H. “The Henson Curse,” Shock Totem 10.

Hannett, Lisa L. “In Syllables of Elder Seas,” The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu.

Hardy, Lynn “Beyond the Shore,” Cthulhu Lies Dreaming.

Hargadon, Stephen “McMara’s Rock,” (novella) Black Static #55 Nov-Dec.

Hargadon, Stephen “Mittens,” Black Static #53, July/August.

Table of Contents

Nesters Siobhan Carroll
The Oestridae Robert Levy
The Process is a Process All its Own Peter Straub
The Bad Hour Christopher Golden
Red Rabbit Steve Rasnic Tem
It’s All the Same Road in the End Brian Hodge
Fury DB Waters
Grave Goods Gemma Files
Between Dry Ribs Gregory Norman Bossert
The Days of Our Lives Adam LG Nevill
House of Wonders C.E Ward
The Numbers Christopher Burns
Bright Crown of Joy Livia Llewellyn
The Beautiful Thing We Will Become Kristi DeMeester
Wish You Were Here Nadia Bulkin
Ragman Rebecca Lloyd
What’s Out There? Gary McMahon
No Matter Which Way We Turned Brian Evenson
The Castellmarch Man Ray Cluley
The Ice Beneath Us Steve Duffy
On These Blackened Shores of Time Brian Hodge

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