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• Breaking Up • short story by Monica J. O'Rourke [as by Monica O'Rourke]
• The Carp-Faced Boy • short story by Thersa Matsuura
• Fathomless Tides • short story by Tim Waggoner
• Metamorphic Apotheosis • short story by Rena Mason
• Carly Is Dead • (2010) • short story by Shane McKenzie
• The Bitches of Madison County • short story by John F. D. Taff
• Finding Water to Catch Fire • short story by Linda D. Addison [as by Linda Addison]
• Gold • short story by James S. Dorr [as by James Dorr]
• Above the World • (1979) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Mulholland Moonshine • short story by John Palisano
• White Trash Gothic (excerpt) • short fiction by Edward Lee
• Rotten Apples • short story by John Claude Smith
• Calcutta, Lord of Nerves • (1992) • short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• Kozmic Blues • (2016) • short story by Alessandro Manzetti
• Alley Oops • (2009) • short fiction by Del Howison
• In the Garden • short story by Lisa Morton
• In Frigore Veritas • short story by K. Trap Jones
• This Is How We Learn • short story by John Skipp
• Black-Eyed Susan • short story by Mike Lester
• Dearly Beloved • short story by Ron Breznay
• Vestige • short story by Annie Neugebauer
• Professor Aligi's Puppets • short story by Nicola Lombardi (trans. of I burattini di Mastr'Aligi 2014)
• 12 • short story by Gene O'Neill
• How to Make Love and Not Turn to Stone • short story by Daniel Braum
• Candy • (2015) • short story by Paolo Di Orazio
• No Place Like Home • short story by J. G. Faherty
• The Office • short story by Kevin Lucia
• Contractions • short story by Kevin Anderson [as by Kevin David Anderson]
• Season's End • short story by Colleen Anderson
• The Rules of Silence • short story by Simonetta Santamaria
• Every Ghost Story Is a Ghost Story • short story by Nick Mamatas
• Building Condemned • short story by Adrian Ludens
• By the River She Waits • short story by Erinn L. Kemper [as by Erinn Kemper]
• The Captain • short story by Stefano Fantelli
• The Dark River in His Flesh • (2004) • short story by Maria Alexander
• Blacker Against the Deep Dark • short story by Alexander Zelenyj
• Larrie's Tapes • short story by Luigi Musolino
• Cold Finale • short story by Bruce Boston and Marge Simon
• Game • novelette by Daniele Bonfanti
• Blue Rose • [Blue Rose] • (1985) • novella by Peter Straub
• The I of the Beholder • short story by Kathryn Ptacek