Copyrights and Publication History
“Foreword” © 2010 by Patrick Swenson; All the following stories first appeared in Talebones, year of the copyright. “The Yard God” © 2001 by James Van Pelt; “The Winds of Brennan Marcher” © 1995 by Barb Hendee; “Ten Sigmas” © 2004 by Paul Melko; “Cats, Dogs, and Other Creatures” © 2001 by Steve Rasnic Tem; “Still Life with Boobs” © 2005 by Anne Harris; “The Girl with the Pre-Raphaelite Hair” © 1999 by Carrie Vaughn; “Swoop” © 2009 by Patricia Russo; “Two” © 2007 by Jack Skillingstead; “Snow on Snow” © 1995 by Nina Kiriki Hoffman; “Night Shift” © 2004 by Louise Marley; “The Next Best Thing” © 1998 by Ray Vukcevich; “23 Skidoo” © 1997 by Patrick O’Leary; “Hail, Conductor” © 2006 by Charles Coleman Finlay; “The Parable of Satan’s Adversary” © 2003 by Jack Cady; “The Acid Test” © 2004 by Kay Kenyon; “The Dandelion Clock” © 2006 by Stephen Couch; “Comachrome” © 2002 by Alan DeNiro; “Robbie” © 1998 by James C. Glass; “Song of Mother Jungle” © 1997 by Ken Rand; “Jack in the Box” © 1995 by Mike Brotherton; “Spiders” © 1996 by Bruce Taylor; “Love of the True God” © 1998 by Uncle River; “Tall Spirits, Blocking the Night” © 2002 by Jay Lake; “From Sunset to the White Sea” © 2003 by William Mingin; “Landlocked” © 2000 by Barth Anderson; “Seepage” © 1999 by Catherine Macleod; “Zothique mi Amor” © 1999 by Mark Rich; “Sugar ‘n’ Spice” © 2001 by Devon Monk; “Wolf Song” © 2007 by William F. Nolan; “Safe, Child, Safe” © 2009 by Aliette de Bodard; “Your Life, Fifteen Minutes from Now” © 2000 by Nick Mamatas; “The Forever Sleep” © 2003 by Jennifer Rachel Baumer; “Roofs and Forgiveness in the Early Dawn” © 2002 by James Sallis; “Nothing But Fear” © 1997 by Eric Del Carlo; “Caucasus” © 1996 by Tom Piccirilli; “Bluebeard by the Sea” © 2004 by Sandra McDonald; “The Dog Prince” © 2004 by Sarah Prineas; “Three Chords and the Truth” © 2009 by John A. Pitts; “Death Comes but Twice” © 2007 by Mary Robinette Kowal; “The Twa Corbies” © 2005 by Marie Brennan; “God of Exile” © 1998 by Terry McGarry; “Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk” © 2001 by Ken Scholes.