A groundbreaking anthology that includes outstanding tales by Joe Hill, Lawrence Block, Carolyn Parkhurst, Joanne Harris, Richard Adams, Jeffery Deaver, and Neil Gaiman.
Introduction : just four words / Neil Gaiman Blood / Roddy Doyle Fossil-figures / Joyce Carol Oates Wildfire in Manhattan / Joanne Harris The truth is a cave in the Black Mountains / Neil Gaiman Unbelief / Michael Marshall Smith The stars are falling / Joe R. Lansdale Juvenal Nyx / Walter Mosley The knife / Richard Adams Weights and measures / Jodi Picoult Goblin Lake / Michael Swanwick Mallon the guru / Peter Straub Catch and release / Lawrence Block Polka dots and moonbeams / Jeffrey Ford Loser / Chuck Palahniuk Samantha's diary / Diana Wynne Jones Land of the lost / Stewart O'Nan Leif in the wind / Gene Wolfe Unwell / Carolyn Parkhurst A life in fictions / Kat Howard Let the past begin / Jonathan Carroll The therapist / Jeffery Deaver Parallel lines / Tim Powers The cult of the nose / Al Sarrantonio Human intelligence / Kurt Andersen Stories / Michael Moorcock The maiden flight of McCauley's Bellerophon / Elizabeth Hand The devil on the staircase / Joe Hill
