by Paula Guran
“The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep” © 1993 Charles de Lint. First publication: Snow White, Blood Red, eds. Terri Windling & Ellen Datlow (AvoNova / William Morrow).
“Good Hunting” © 2012 Ken Liu. First publication: Strange Horizons 2012 Fund Drive Bonus Issue, November 2012.
“By the Moon’s Good Grace” © 2014 Kirstyn McDermott. First publication: Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 12, Issue 3, December 2014
“Rats” © 2007 Veronica Schanoes. First publication: Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, eds. Delia Sherman, Theodora Goss (Interstitial Arts Foundation).
“Lebkuchen” © 2011 Priya Sharma. First publication: Fantasy, January 2011.
“The Bone Mother” © 2010 Angela Slatter. First publication: The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales (Ticonderoga).
“The Juniper Tree” © 1988 Peter Straub. First publication: Prime Evil, ed. Douglas E. Winter (NAL Books / New American Library).
“Beyond the Naked Eye” © 2013 Rachel Swirsky. First publication: Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond, eds. John Joseph Adams & Douglas Cohen (47North).
“Lavanya and Deepika” © 2011 Shveta Thakrar. First publication: Demeter’s Spicebox, Issue One, April 2011.
“The Maiden Tree” © 2010 Catherynne M. Valente. First publication: Ventriloquism (PS Publishing).
“Greensleeves” © 1989 Jeff VanderMeer. First publication: The Book of Frog (Ministry of Whimsy Press). Reprinted with permission of the author and VanderMeer Creative.
“In the House of Gingerbread” © 1987 Gene Wolfe. First publication: The Architecture of Fear, eds. Peter D. Pautz & Kathryn Cramer (Arbor House). Reprinted with the permission of the author and the author’s agents, the Virginia Kidd Agency, Inc.
“Memoirs of a Bottle Djinn” © 1988 Jane Yolen. First Publication: Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights, ed. Susan Shwartz (Avon Books).
About the Editor
Paula Guran edits the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror series as well as a growing number of other anthologies. She is senior editor for Prime Books and earlier edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. In an previous life she produced weekly email newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Stokers, an IHG award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination), edited magazine Horror Garage (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination), and has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications. It is easy to find her online through paulaguran.com, Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere. The mother of four, mother-in-law of two, and grandmother of three, Guran lives in Akron, Ohio.