We could not have completed this book without the research, advice, and author and story note compilations of Matthew Cheney. It has been a joy to work with our good friend again.
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Alfar, Dean Francis: “The Kite of Stars” by Dean Francis Alfar. Copyright © 2003 by Dean Francis Alfar. First published in Strange Horizons. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Amundsen, Erik: “Bufo Rex” by Erik Amundsen. Copyright © 2007 by Erik Amundsen. First published in Weird Tales #347. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Ballard, J. G.: “The Drowned Giant” by J. G. Ballard. Copyright © 1964 by J. G. Ballard from The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard by J. G. Ballard. Used by permission of W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
Ballingrud, Nathan: “The Malady of Ghostly Cities” by Nathan Ballingrud. Copyright © 2003 by Nathan Ballingrud. First published in The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Bear, Greg: “The White Horse Child” by Greg Bear. Copyright © 1979 by Greg Bear. First published in Universe #9. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Bender, Aimee: “End of the Line” from Willful Creatures: Stories by Aimee Bender. Copyright © 2005 by Aimee Bender. First published in Tin House (Fall 2004). Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Borges, Jorge Luis: “The Zahir” by Jorge Luis Borges. Copyright © 1998 by Maria Kodama; translation copyright © 1998 by Penguin Random House LLC, from Collected Fictions: Volume 3 by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Bowes, Richard: “The Bear Dresser’s Secret” by Richard Bowes. Copyright © 2009 by Richard Bowes. First published in Electric Velocipede 17/18 (Spring 2009). Reprinted by permission of the author.
Bowles, Paul: “The Circular Valley” from The Stories of Paul Bowles by Paul Bowles. Copyright © 2001 by the estate of Paul Bowles. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Bulgakov, Mikhail: “The Sinister Apartment,” excerpt from The Master and Margarita. Translation copyright © 2019 by Ekaterina Sedia. First published in Russian in 1967. Published by permission of the translator.
Calvino, Italo: “The Origin of the Birds” from The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver. Copyright © 1965 by Giulio Einaudi edtorie s. p. a. English translation copyright © 1968 and copyright renewed 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and Jonathan Cape Limited. All rights reserved.
Carrington, Leonora: “A Mexican Fairytale” by Leonora Carrington. Story and translation copyright © 2017 by the Estate of Leonora Carrington. First published in 1988. Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Leonora Carrington.
Carter, Angela: “The Erl-King” from Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter. Published by Henry Holt, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Angela Carter. First published in Bananas, October 1977. Reproduced by permission of the estate c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
Carter, Angela: “Alice in Prague or The Curious Room” from Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter. Published by Henry Holt, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by Angela Carter. First published in Spell (Vol. 5, 1990). Reproduced by permission of the estate c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
Chapman, Stepan: “State Secrets of Aphasia” by Stepan Chapman. Copyright © 2002 by Stepan Chapman. First published in Leviathan 3. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Chappell, Fred: “Linnaeus Forgets” by Fred Chappell. From Ancestors and Others © 2009 by Fred Chappell. First published by American Review (November 1977). Reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press. All rights reserved.
Cherryh, C. J.: “The Dreamstone” by C. J. Cherryh. Copyright © 1979 by C. J. Cherryh. First published in AMAZONS! Reprinted by permission of the author.
Chimal, Alberto: “Mogo” © 2003 by Alberto Chimal. Originally published in Nuevas voces de la narrativa mexicana (Planeta, 2003). Translation copyright © 2019 by Lawrence Schimel. Reprinted by permission of the author and translator.
Chimal, Alberto: “Table with Ocean” © 2009 by Alberto Chimal. Originally published as “Mesa con mar” in La ciudad imaginada y otras historias (Libros Magenta, 2009). Translation copyright © 2019 by Lawrence Schimel. Reprinted by permission of the author and translator.
Cortázar, Julio: “Cronopios and Famas” by Julio Cortázar, translated by Paul Blackburn. Copyright © 1962 by Julio Cortázar and the Heirs of Julio Cortázar. Translation copyright © 1969 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate c/o Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells, S.A. and New Directions Publishing Corp.
Delany, Samuel R.: “The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers” by Samuel R. Delany. Copyright © 1978 by Samuel R. Delany. First published in Tales of Nevèrÿon. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Draeger, Manuela: “The Arrest of the Great Mimille” (“L’arrestation de la grande Mimille”) by Manuela Draeger. Copyright © 2007 by Manuela Draeger. Translation copyright © 2019 by Brian Evenson and Valerie Mariana. Reprinted by permission of L’ecole des Loisirs and the translators.
Drake, David: “The Fool” by David Drake. Copyright © 1987 by David Drake. First published in Whispers IV. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Ducornet, Rikki: “The Neurosis of Containment” by Rikki Ducornet. Copyright © 1997 by Rikki Ducornet. First published in Desire. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Dumas, Henry: “Ark of Bones” by Henry Dumas. Copyright © 1974 by Henry Dumas. First published in Ark of Bones and Other Stories. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Emshwiller, Carol: “Moon Songs” by Carol Emshwiller. Copyright © 1990 by Carol Emshwiller. First published in The Start and the End of It All. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Farooqi, Musharraf Ali: “The Jinn Darazgosh” by Musharraf Ali Farooqi. Copyright © 2010 by Musharraf Ali Farooqi. Originally published privately in 2010. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Ferré, Rosario: “The Youngest Doll” by Rosario Ferré. Copyright © 1972 by Rosario Ferré. First published in Zona decarga y descarga. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Ford, Jeffrey: “The Weight of Words” by Jeffrey Ford. Copyright © 2002 by Jeffrey Ford. First published in Leviathan 3. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Fowler, Karen Joy: “Wild Boys: Variations on a Theme” by Karen Joy Fowler. Copyright © 1986 by Karen Joy Fowler. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Gallardo, Sara: “The Great Night of the Trains” by Sara Gallardo. Copyright © 1977 by Sara Gallardo. First published in Land of Smoke. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and Pushkin Press.
Gray, Alasdair: “Five Letters from an Eastern Empire” by Alasdair Gray. Copyright © Alasdair Gray. Published by Canongate Books Ltd. Reproduced by permission of Alasdair Gray c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JN.
Hand, Elizabeth: “The Boy in the Tree” by Elizabeth Hand. Copyright © 1989 by Elizabeth Hand. First published in Full Spectrum 2. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Harrison, M. John: “The Luck in the Head” by M. John Harrison. Copyright © 1984 by M. John Harrison. First published in Interzone #9 (Autumn 1984). Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s representative.
Henderson, Zenna: “The Anything Box” by Zenna Henderson.
Copyright © 1956, 1984 by Zenna Henderson. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Reprinted by permission of the estate of Zenna Henderson and the Virginia Kidd Agency.
Hermanson, Marie: “The Mole King” by Marie Hermanson. Copyright © 1986 by Marie Hermanson. First published in Det finns ett hål i verkligheten. Translation copyright © 2019 by Charlie Haldén. Reprinted by permission of the author and Nordin Agency, Sweden, and the translator.
Hill, Joe: “Pop Art” by Joe Hill. Copyright © 2001 by Joe Hill. First published in With Signs and Wonders. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Hopkinson, Nalo: “Tan-Tan and Dry Bone” by Nalo Hopkinson. Copyright © 1999 by Nalo Hopkinson. First published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Hughes, Rhys: “The Darktree Wheel” by Rhys Hughes. Copyright © 1998 by Rhys Hughes. First published in Leviathan 2. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Husain, Intizar: “Kaya-Kalp (or Metamorphosis)” by Intizar Husain. Translation by C. M. Naim. Originally published in 1962. English translation published by permission of the translator.
Jackson, Shelley: “Fœtus” by Shelley Jackson. Copyright © 1998 by Shelley Jackson. First published in Conjunctions, no. 30. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Jansson, Tove: “The Last Dragon in the World,” text and illustrations by Tove Jansson. Copyright © 1962 by Moomin CharactersTM Tove Jansson. First published in Tales from Moominvalley. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and R&B Licensing for OY Moomin Characters Ltd.
Jones, Diana Wynne: “Warlock at the Wheel” by Diana Wynne Jones. Copyright © 1984 by Diana Wynne Jones. First published in Warlock at the Wheel and Other Stories. Reprinted by permission from the author’s estate.
Kadlečková, Vilma: “Longing for Blood” by Vilma Kadlečková. Copyright © 1995 by Vilma Kadlečková. Translated by Martin Klima and Bruce Sterling. First published in Czech in Základna, no. 7. Reprinted by permission of the author and the translators.
Karasu, Bilge: “The Prey” by Bilge Karasu, translated by Aron Aji, from The Garden of Departed Cats, copyright © 1991 by Bilge Karasu and Metis Yayinlari, translation copyright © 2003 by Aron Aji. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Kiernan, Caitlín R.: “La Peau Verte” by Caitlín R. Kiernan. Copyright © 2005 by Caitlín R. Kiernan. Originally published in To Charles Fort, with Love. Reprinted by permission of the author.
King, Stephen: “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut” by Stephen King from Skeleton Crew: Stories by Stephen King. Copyright © 1985 by Stephen King. Reprinted by permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
Kisiel, Marta: “For Life” by Marta Kisiel, translated by Kate Webster. Copyright © 2007 by Marta Kisiel, translation copyright © 2019 by Kate Webster. First published as Dożywocie. Published by arrangements with Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, and by permission of the author and translator.
Krohn, Leena: “The Bystander” by Leena Krohn. Copyright © 1985 by Leena Krohn. Excerpt from Tainaron. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Lafferty, R. A.: “Narrow Valley” by R. A. Lafferty. Copyright © Locus Science Fiction Foundation. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (September 1966). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
LaValle, Victor: “I Left My Heart in Skaftafell” by Victor LaValle. Copyright © 2004 by Victor LaValle. Originally published in Daedelus, Vol. 133 no. 4. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Lee, Tanith: “Where Does the Town Go at Night?” by Tanith Lee. Copyright © 1999 by Tanith Lee. First published in Interzone, no. 147 (September 1999). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Le Guin, Ursula: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin. Copyright © 1973 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First appeared in New Dimensions 3, and then in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, published by HarperCollins in 1975. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Leiber, Fritz: “Lean Times in Lankhmar” by Fritz Leiber. Copyright © 1959 by the Estate of Fritz Leiber. First published in Fantastic (November 1959). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Lewis, D. F.: “A Brief Visit to Bonnyville” by D. F. Lewis. Copyright © 1995 by D. F. Lewis. Originally published in The Third Alternative. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Link, Kelly: “Travels with the Snow Queen” by Kelly Link. Copyright © 1996 by Kelly Link. Originally published in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and reprinted in Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link (Small Beer Press). Reprinted by permission of the author.
Loenen-Ruiz, Rochita: “The Wordeaters” by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz. Copyright © 2008 by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz. Originally published in Weird Tales #351. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Márquez, Gabriel García: “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” from Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Copyright © 1971 by Gabriel García Márquez. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Martin, George R. R.: “The Ice Dragon” by George R. R. Martin. Copyright © 1980 by George R. R. Martin. Originally published in Dragons of Light (1980). Reprinted by permission of the author.
McKillip, Patricia: “The Fellowship of the Dragon” by Patricia McKillip. Copyright © 1992 by Patricia McKillip. First published in After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Mittelholzer, Edgar: “Poolwana’s Orchid” by Edgar Mittelholzer. Copyright © 1951 by Edgar Mittelholzer. First published in Creole Chips and Other Writings, copyright © 2018. Reprinted by permission of Peepal Tree Press and the author’s estate.
Moorcock, Michael: “The Dreaming City” by Michael Moorcock. Copyright © 1961 by Michael Moorcock. Originally published in Science Fantasy, no. 47. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Murakami, Haruki: “TV People” from The Elephant Vanishes: Stories by Haruki Murakami. Copyright © 1993 by Haruki Murakami. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Murphy, Pat: “On the Dark Side of the Station Where the Train Never Stops” by Pat Murphy. Copyright © 1984 by Pat Murphy. First published in Elsewhere, Vol. III. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s representative.
Nabokov, Vladimir: “Signs and Symbols” by Vladimir Nabokov from The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov. Copyright © 1995 by Dmitri Nabokov. First published in 1948. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Nix, Garth: “Beyond the Sea Gate of the Scholar-Pirates of Sarsköe” by Garth Nix. Copyright © 2008 by Garth Nix. Originally published in Fast Ships, Black Sails. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Ocampo, Silvina: “The Topless Tower” by Silvina Ocampo. Copyright © 1968 by Silvina Ocampo. Translated by James and Marian Womack, translation copyright © 2010. Originally published as “La torre sin fin.” Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Silvina Ocampo and the translators.
Okri, Ben: “What the Tapster Saw” from Stars of the New Curfew, Secker & Warburg, 1998. Copyright © 1988 by Ben Okri. Reproduced by permission of Ben Okri, c/o Georgina Capel Associates Ltd., 29 Wardour Street, London, W1D 6PS and The Random House Group Limited, London.
Pelevin, Victor: “The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII,” translated by Andrew Bromfield, from The Blue Lantern and Other Stories. Russian text copyright © 1991 by Victor Pelevin. Translation copyright © 1996 by Andrew Bromfield. English publishing rights acquired via FTM Agency, Ltd. Russia, 2019. Reprinted by permission of FTM Agency, Ltd. Russia and New Directions Publishing Corp.
Pollack, Rachel: “The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighborhood�
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Prabhaker, Sumanth: “A Hard Truth About Waste Management” by Sumanth Prabhaker. Copyright © 2006 by Sumanth Prabhaker. Originally published in Identity Theory. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Pratchett, Terry: “Troll Bridge” by Terry Pratchett. Copyright © 1992 by Terry Pratchett. First published in After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Qitongren: “The Spring of Dongke Temple” (“东柯僧院的春天”) by Qitongren (骑桶人). Copyright © 2007 by Qitongren. Translated by Liu Jue. Originally published in Dream Catcher—Bucket Rider (Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House, 2007). Reprinted by permission of the author and translator.
Richardson, Maurice: “Ten Rounds with Grandfather Clock” by Maurice Richardson. Copyright © 1946 by Maurice Richardson. First published in Lilliput (July 1946). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Russ, Joanna: “The Barbarian” by Joanna Russ. Copyright © 1968 by Joanna Russ. First published in Orbit 3 (1968). Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Santaliz, Edgardo Sanabria: “After the Hurricane” by Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz. Copyright © 1985 by Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz. Originally published in El día que el hombre píso la luna, Editorial Antillana, Rio Piedras, PR 1984. Translated by Beth Baugh. Translation copyright © 1985 by Beth Baugh. First published in English in New England Review. Reprinted by permission of the author and translator.
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