


Thanks to the readers: you’re what it’s all about.

Thank you to my stalwart companions Athena, Horatio, Ulysses, and Persephone: ever loyal, ever true. My agents, Brendan Deneen and Colleen Lindsay.īarbara Baar Andrew Migliore JD Busch Dexter Morgan Jeff Ford Charles Tan Chris Perridas Tom Tyson John, Fiona, and David Langan Stewart O’Nan Paul Witcover Terry Weyna John Pelan Sarah Langan Gavin Grant Wilum Pugmire Richard Gavin Ian Rogers Steve Berman Simon Strantzas Marc Laidlaw Norm Partridge Lee Thomas Gene O’Neill Livia Llewellyn Nick Kaufmann Nick Gevers Paul Tremblay Rick Bowes Jack Haringa John Skipp Cody Goodfellow Kelly Link Lucius Shepard Elizabeth Hand ST Joshi Jerad Walters Nick Mamatas David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer Mike Allen Vera Nazarian Peter Crowther Ann VanderMeer Jeff VanderMeer Gordon Van Gelder Ellen Datlow. “Six Six Six” is original to this volume. “The Broadsword,” first published in Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, edited by S. “Strappado,” first published in Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Solaris Books, 2009. “Catch Hell,” first published in Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Comics, 2009. “Mysterium Tremendum” is original to this volume. “The Lagerstätte,” first published in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow, Del Rey Books, 2008. “Occultation,” first published as “The Occultation” in Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness, edited by Mike Allen, Norilana Books, 2008. “The Forest,” first published in Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by Ellen Datlow, Tor Books, 2007. This edition of Occultation © 2010 by Night Shade Books
