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“Antiquities” copyright © 1977 by Stuart David Schiff. First published (in a slightly different version) in Whispers, edited by Stuart David Schiff, published by Doubleday. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“Her Bounty to the Dead” under the title “Where Spirits Gat Them Home” copyright © 1978 by Charles L. Grant. First published (in a slightly different version) in Shadows, edited by Charles L. Grant, published by Doubleday. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

Excerpt from “Sunday Morning,” appearing in “Her Bounty to the Dead,” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

“The Reason for the Visit” copyright © 1980 by John Crowley. First published (in a slightly different version) in Interfaces, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd, published by Ace Books. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“The Green Child” copyright © 1981 by John Crowley. First published (in a slightly different version) in Elsewhere, edited by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold, published by Ace Books. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“Novelty” copyright © 1983 by John Crowley. First published in Interzone, Autumn 1983. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“Snow” copyright © 1985 by Omni Publications International, Ltd. First published (in a slightly different version) in Omni, November 1985. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“The Nightingale Sings at Night,” “Great Work of Time,” and “In Blue,” copyright © 1989 by John Crowley. First published in Novelty: Four Stories by John Crowley, published by Foundation/Doubleday. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“Missolonghi 1824” copyright © 1990 by Davis Publications. First published (in a slightly different version) in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, March 1990, Vol. 14, No. 3. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“Exogamy” copyright © 1993 by John Crowley. First published (in a slightly different version) in Omni Best Science Fiction Three, edited by Ellen Datlow, published by Omni Books. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“Lost and Abandoned” copyright © 1997 by John Crowley. First published in Black Swan, White Raven, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, published by Avon Books. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“Gone” copyright © 1996 by Mercury Press, Inc. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1996. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings” copyright © 2000 by John Crowley. First published in An Earthly Mother Sits and Sings (illustrated chapbook) by John Crowley, illustrated by Charles Vess, published by DreamHaven Books. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

“The War Between the Objects and the Subjects” copyright © 2002 by John Crowley. First published in Embrace the Mutation, edited by William Schafer and Bill Sheehan, published by Subterranean Press. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.