SEVEN FEET copyright © Christopher Fowler 2003. Origin-.illy published in Demonized. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE CENTIPEDE copyright © Susan Davis 2003. Originally published in All Hallows 33, June 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE GOAT CUTTER copyright © Joseph E. Lake, Jr. 2003. Originally published in Greetings from Lake Wu. Reprinted by permission of the author.

MAYBE NEXT TIME copyright © Michael Marshall Smith 2003. Originally published in More Tomorrow & Other Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author.

STORY TIME WITH THE BLUEFIELD STRANGLER copyright © John Farris 2003. Originally published in Borderlands 5: An Anthology of Imaginative Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.

HUNTER LAKE copyright © Gene Wolfe 2003. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.

MR. SLY STOPS FOR A CUP OF JOE copyright © Scott Emerson Bull 2003. Originally published in Gathering the Bones. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE BEREAVEMENT PHOTOGRAPHER copyright © Steve Rasnic Tem 2003. Originally published in 13 Horrors: A Devil's Dozen Stories Celebrating 13 Years of the World Horror Convention. Reprinted by permission of the author.

KISSING CARRION copyright © Gemma Files 2003. Originally published in Kissing Carrion. Reprinted by permission of the author.

THE WHITE HANDS copyright © Mark Samuels 2003. Originally published in The White Hands and Other Weird Tales. First published in substantially different form as «Amelia» in Black Tears No. 1, 1993. Reprinted by permission of the author.

WAYCROSS copyright © Caitlin R. Kiernan 2003. Originally published in Waycross. Reprinted by permission of the author.

LUCY, IN HER SPLENDOR copyright © Charles Coleman Finlay 2003. Originally published on MarsDust.com. Reprinted by permission of the author.