From the Book - 2010 edition.
Introduction / Paula Guran --
The horrid glory of its wings / Elizabeth Bear --
Lowland sea / Suzy McKee Charnas --
Copping squid / Michael Shea --
Monsters / Stewart O'Nan --
The brink of eternity / Barbara Roden --
Frost Mountain picnic massacre / Seth Fried --
Sea-hearts / Margo Lanagan --
A haunted house of her own / Kelley Armstrong --
Headstone in my pocket / Paul Tremblay --
The coldest girl in Coldtown / Holly Black --
Strange scenes from an unfinished film / Gary McMahon --
A delicate architecture / Catherynne M. Valente --
The mystery / Peter Atkins --
Variations of a theme from Seinfeld / Peter Straub --
The wide, carnivorous sky / John Langan --
Certain death for a known person / Steve Duffy --
The ones who got away / Stephen Graham Jones --
Torn away / Joe R. Lansdale --
The nowhere man / Sarah Pinborough --
The bone's prayer / Caitl�in R. Kiernan --
The water tower / John Mantooth --
In the porches of my ears / Norman Prentiss --
The Cinderella game / Kelly Link --
The jacaranda smile / Gemma Files --
The other box / Gerard Houarner --
White Charles / Sarah Monette --
Everything dies, baby / Nadia Bulkin --
Bruise for bruise / Robert Davies --
Respects / Ramsey Campbell --
Diamond shell / Deborah Biancotti --
The cabinet child / Steve Rasnic Tem --
Cherrystone and shards of ice / Ekaterina Sedia --
The crevasse / Dale Bailey and Nathan Balingrud --
Halloween town / Lucius Shepard --
The long, cold goodbye / Holly Phillips --
What happens when you wake up in the night / Michael Marshall Smith.
From the Book - 2018 Edition.
Introduction: same old stories / Paula Guran --
The crow palace / Priya Sharma --
Red bark and ambergris / Kate Marshall --
Survival strategies / Helen Marshall --
The swimming pool party / Robert Shearman --
The long fade into evening / Steve Rasnic Tem --
Graverobbing Negress seeks employment / Eden Royce --
Sunflower junction / Simon Avery --
Welcome to your authentic Indian experience / Rebecca Roanhorse --
Moon, and memory, and muchness / Katherine Vaz --
On Highway 18 / Rebecca Campbell --
The little mermaid, in passing / Angela Slatter --
Follow / Ashley Blooms --
The eyes are white and quiet / Carole Johnstone --
Secret keeper / Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam --
Mapping the interior / Stephen Graham Jones --
The dinosaur tourist / Caitlín R. Kiernan --
Exceeding bitter / Kaaron Warren --
Witch-hazel / Jeffrey Ford --
Little digs / Lisa L. Hannett --
The bride in sea-green velvet / Robin Furth --
Succulents / Conrad Williams --
Moon blood-red, tide turning / Mark Samuels --
Skins mooth as plantain, hearts soft as mango / Ian Muneshwar --
Children of thorns, children of water / Aliette de Bodard --
The Thule stowaway / Maria Dahvana Headley --
Don't turn on the lights / Cassandra Khaw --
Everything beautiful is terrifying / M. Rickert --
Swift to chase / Laird Barron --
The lamentation of their women / Kai Ashante Wilson --