“In Syllables of Elder Seas” © 2016 Lisa L. Hannett. Original to this volume.
“It’s All the Same Road in the End” © 2016 Brian Hodge. Original to this volume.
“The Peddler’s Tale, Or, Isobel’s Revenge” © 2014 Caitlín R. Kiernan. A version of this story was privately published in Sirena’s Digest 95.
“Outside the House, Watching for the Crows” © 2016 John Langan. Original to this volume.
“Falcon-and-Sparrows” © 2016 Yoon Ha Lee. Original to this volume.
“The Cthulhu Navy Wife” © 2016 Sandra McDonald. Original to this volume.
“In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro” © 2016 Usman T. Malik. Original to this volume.
“Caro in Carno” © 2016 Helen Marshall. Original to this volume.
“Legacy of Salt” © 2016 Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Original to this volume.
“Backbite” © 2016 Norman Partridge. Original to this volume.
“A Shadow of Thine Own Design” © 2016 W. H. Pugmire. Original to this volume.
“Variations on Lovecraftian Themes” © 2016 Veronica Schanoes
“Just Beyond the Trailer Park” © 2016 John Shirley. Original to this volume.
“Alexandra Lost” © 2016 Simon Strantzas. Original to this volume.
“Umbilicus” © 2016 Damien Angelica Walters
“The Future Eats Everything” © 2016 Don Webb. Original to this volume.
“I Do Not Count the Hours” © 2016 Michael Wehunt. Original to this volume.
“I Dress My Lover in Yellow” © 2016 A. C. Wise. Original to this volume.
Paula Guran is the senior editor for Prime Books. She edits the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror anthology series. Guran has also edited around thirty other anthologies as well as numerous novels and single-author collections. She edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through to its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. The recipient of two Bram Stoker awards, Guran has been nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award. She lives in Akron, Ohio.
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