Table of Contents

NON-FICTION

• Introduction — John Joseph Adams
• For Further Reading — Ross Lockhart

FICTION

• Snow, Glass, Apples — Neil Gaiman
• The Master of Rampling Gate — Anne Rice
• Under St. Peter’s — Harry Turtledove
• Child of an Ancient City — Tad Williams
• Lifeblood — Michael A. Burstein
• Endless Night — Barbara Roden
• Infestation — Garth Nix
• Life is the Teacher — Carrie Vaughn
• The Vechi Barbat — Nancy Kilpatrick
• The Beautiful, The Damned — Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Pinecones — David Wellington
• Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu — Norman Partridge
• Foxtrot at High Noon — Sergei Lukyanenko
• This is Now — Michael Marshall Smith
• Blood Gothic — Nancy Holder
• Mama Gone — Jane Yolen
• Abraham’s Boys — Joe Hill
• Nunc Dimittis — Tanith Lee
• Hunger — Gabriela Lee
• Ode to Edvard Munch — Caitlín R. Kiernan
• Finders Keepers — L. A. Banks
• After the Stone Age — Brian Stableford
• Much at Stake — Kevin J. Anderson
• House of the Rising Sun — Elizabeth Bear
• A Standup Dame — Lilith Saintcrow
• Twilight — Kelley Armstrong
• In Darkness, Angels — Eric Van Lustbader
• Sunrise on Running Water — Barbara Hambly
• Hit — Bruce McAllister
• Undead Again — Ken MacLeod
• Peking Man — Robert J. Sawyer
• Necros — Brian Lumley
• Exsanguinations — Catherynne M. Valente
• Lucy in Her Splendor — Charles Coleman Finlay
• The Wide, Carnivorous Sky — John Langan
• One for the Road — Stephen King

ARTWORK

• Cover art by David Palumbo