By Blood We Live

by John Joseph Adams

  by Anne Rice

  Under St. Peter's

  by Harry Turtledove

  Child of an Ancient City

  by Tad Williams

  Lifeblood

  by Michael A. Burstein

  Endless Night

  by Barbara Roden

  Infestation

  by Garth Nix

  Life is the Teacher

  by Carrie Vaughn

  The Vechi Barbat

  by Nancy Kilpatrick

  The Beautiful, The Damned

  by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  PINECONES

  by David Wellington

  DO NOT HASTEN TO

  BID ME ADIEU

  by Norman Partridge

  FOXTROT AT HIGH NOON

  by Sergei Lukyanenko

  Translated from Russian by Michael M. Naydan and Slava I. Yastremski

  This Is Now

  by Michael Marshall Smith

  BLOOD GOTHIC

  by Nancy Holder

  MAMA GONE

  by Jane Yolen

  Abraham's Boys

  by Joe Hill

  Nunc Dimittis

  by Tanith Lee

  Hunger

  by Gabriela Lee

  Ode to Edvard Munch

  by Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Finders Keepers

  by L. A. Banks

  After the Stone Age

  by Brian Stableford

  Much at Stake

  by Kevin J. Anderson

  House of the

  Rising Sun

  by Elizabeth Bear

  A Standup Dame

  by Lilith Saintcrow

  Twilight

  by Kelley Armstrong

  In Darkness, Angels

  by Eric Van Lustbader

  SUNRISE ON RUNNING WATER

  by Barbara Hambly

  Hit

  by Bruce McAllister

  Undead Again

  by Ken MacLeod

  Peking Man

  by Robert J. Sawyer

  Necros

  by Brian Lumley

  Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire

  by Anna S. Oppenhagen-Petrescu

  translated from the Romanian by Catherynne M. Valente

  Lucy, In Her Splendor

  by Charles Coleman Finlay

  The Wide, Carnivorous Sky

  by John Langan

  One for the Road

  by Stephen King

  For Further Reading

  compiled by Ross E. Lockhart

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author