This is a collection of 11 bone-chilling stories of children who have learned to deal with the worse. What they do may surprise you, because they are children of the night. Contents: Introduction • essay by Martin H. Greenberg Boobs • (1989) • short story by Suzy McKee Charnas Specters in the Moonlight • (1996) • short story by Larry Segriff There's No Such Thing • [Ottawa and the Valley] • (1991) • short story by Charles de Lint The Child That Went with the Fairies • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Wish • (1985) • short story by Al Sarrantonio The Third Nation • (1993) • novelette by Lee Hoffman The Girl with the Hungry Eyes • (1949) • short story by Fritz Leiber Food Chain • (1995) • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman The Magic-Stealer • (1991) • short story by Josepha Sherman The Words of Guru • (1941) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth (as Kenneth Falconer) Lost Boys • (1989) • short story by Orson Scott Card