Plow the Bones

by Douglas F. Warrick

  Kyle S. Johnson convinced me that my life and my career were just getting started when I was convinced both were over.

  — DFW, 11/27/2012, Daegu, South Korea

  Author Biographies

  Douglas F. Warrick is a writer, a musician, and a world–traveler. His first published story appeared in Apex Science Fiction & Horror Digest back in 2006. Since then, Douglas’s work has been published in a variety of periodicals, websites, podcasts, and anthologies, and has grown progressively stranger.

  Douglas originally hails from Dayton, OH, but his travels have taken him all over Asia. Douglas has screamed Buzzcock’s lyrics with Korean punk rockers in the neon alleys of Seoul, marveled at the oddness of Beijing’s masked opera singers and illusionists, piloted a bicycle through Kyoto on the way to the Golden Temple, broken up a fight between an Australian tourist and a Thai street vendor in Bangkok, and learned that the world is much weirder and more wonderful than anything he could fabricate.

  Visit Douglas online at www.douglasfwarrick.com.

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  Gary A. Braunbeck is the author of the acclaimed Cedar Hill cycle of novels and stories, among them In Silent Graves, Coffin County, the recent Far Dark Fields, and the forthcoming A Cracked and Broken Path from Apex Publications. His work has garnered five Bran Stoker Awards, three Shocklines “Shocker” Awards, an International Horror Guild Award, a Dark Scribe Magazine Black Quill Award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination. To read more about Gary and his work, please visit www.garybraunbeck.com.

  Table of Contents

  Apex Voices: What Do You Hear?

  Introduction

  Behindeye: A History

  Her Father’s Collection

  Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch’s Damnation

  The Itaewon Eschatology Show

  Come to My Arms, My Beamish Boy

  Funeral Song for a Ventriloquist

  Inhuman Zones: An Oral History of Jan Landau’s Golem Band

  Drag

  Ballad of a Hot Air Balloon–Headed Girl

  Rattenkönig

  Old Roses

  Stickhead (Or… In the Dark, in the Wet, We Are Collected)

  I Inhale the City, the City Exhales Me

  Across the Dead Station Desert, Television Girl

  Acknowledgments

  Biographies