“The Mayor Will Make a Brief Statement and Then Take Questions” originally appeared in ChiZine #33, July-September 2007
“The Pit-Heads” originally appeared in Northern Frights 4, Mosaic Press, 1997
“Slide Trombone” is original to this collection, 2009
“The Inevitability of Earth” originally appeared as “Ground Bound” in On Spec, Spring 1999
“Swamp Witch and the Tea-Drinking Man” originally appeared in Tesseracts Eleven, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2007
“The Delilah Party” originally appeared in Cemetery Dance #56, 2006
“Fly in Your Eye” originally appeared in Horrors: 365 Scary Stories, Barnes & Noble, 1997
“Polyphemus’ Cave” originally appeared in Queer Fear 2, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002
“The Webley” is original to this collection, 2009
All stories copyright © David Nickle.
About the Author
David Nickle lives and works in Toronto, Ontario in the company of his partner Karen Fernandez, and not far from an old filling station where his grandfather John Nickle briefly pumped gasoline in the 1930s. David was born somewhat later, in 1964.
Since then, he has authored numerous short stories and one published novel, The Claus Effect, with Karl Schroeder — all while cultivating an unfortunate singing voice and a tragic affection for the music of Tom Waits.
He is not finished yet.
Copyright
FIRST EDITION
Monstrous Affections © 2009 by David Nickle
Jacket artwork © 2009 by Erik Mohr
All Rights Reserved.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION
Nickle, David, 1964-
Monstrous affections / David Nickle ; editors: Brett Alexander Savory & Sandra Kasturi ; graphic designer/cover artist: Erik Mohr.
ISBN 978-0-9812978-1-1 (bound).—ISBN 978-0-9812978-3-5 (pbk.)
I. Savory, Brett Alexander, 1973- II. Kasturi, Sandra, 1966- III. Title.
PS8577.I33M65 2009 C813’.54 C2009-903945-1
CHIZINE PUBLICATIONS
Toronto, Canada
Edited by Sandra Kasturi
Copyedited and proofread by Brett Alexander Savory
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