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Darkly thrilling, these twenty new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over. Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas recruited Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin Kiernan, Catherynne M. Valente, Kit Reed, Ekaterina Sedia, and thirteen other fine writers to create stories unlike any they've written before. Tales to make readers shiver with fear, jump at noises in the night, keep the lights on. These twenty nightmares, brought together by two renowned editors of the dark fantastic, are delightful visions sure to send shivers down the spines of horror readers. Table of Contents “Introduction” Nick Mamatas “Knickerbocker Holiday” Richard Bowes “That Girl” Kaaron Warren “Akbar” Kit Reed “The Spring Heel” Steven Pixie “As Red as Red” Caitlin R. Kiernan “Tin Cans” Ekaterina Sedia “Shoebox Train Wreck” John Mantooth “Fifteen Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai” Catherynne M. Valente “La Llorona” Carolyn Turgeon “Face Like a Monkey” Carrie Laben “Down Atsion Road” Jeffrey Ford “Return to Mariabronn” Gary A. Braunbeck “Following Double-Face Woman” Erzebet YellowBoy “Oaks Park” M. K. Hobson “For Those in Peril on the Sea” Stephen Dedman “The Foxes” Lily Hoang “The Redfield Girls” Laird Barron “Between Heaven and Hull” Pat Cadigan “Chucky Comes to Liverpool” Ramsey Campbell “The Folding Man” Joe R. Lansdale

How do you defy DESTINY? Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is - no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she's haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood... and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they're destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history. As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together - and trying to tear them apart.

Hirka prepares to meet the ruling house of a cold, hierarchical world where contempt for weakness is paramount. Reluctantly, she accepts her fate, hoping to keep Rime alive and Ymslanda safe. But the dead borns thirst for the Might is absolute and Hirka realize that war she wanted to prevent, is inevitable. An awareness that will soon challenge everything she ever believed in and fought for. ‘The Might’ is the third and final book in the acclaimed fantasy series ‘The Raven Rings’. A spectacular finale that explores roots, power and arrogance.