Contents
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