An introduction to the scandalous and scurrilous Hiram Grange, reluctant hero against the unseen terrors of the earth! Novella excerpts from the upcoming Hiram Grange series, featuring authors Richard Wright, Kevin Lucia, Scott Christian Carr, Robert Davies, and Jake Burrows, fiction from Kim Paffenroth, Michael West, John Bruni, Norman A. Rubin, an interview with Ronald Damien Malfi, columns from Michael Knost, Steve Vernon, Norman Rubenstein, and DL Snell, the Webley revolver, and real life confluences! • From the Editor (Shroud, Winter 2009) • essay by Tim Deal 7 • Buddha in the Box • short fiction by Kim Paffenroth 12 • Dark Effigies: Malcolm McClinton • essay by Tim Deal 22 • For Her • short fiction by Michael West 30 • Fritz Leiber; Smoke, Ghosts & Terror • essay by Daniel R. Robichaud 40 • An Interview with Ronald Damien Malfi • interview of Ronald Malfi • interview by Tim Lieder 50 • Walk Like the Dead • essay by Conor Powers-Smith 60 • The Path • short fiction by John Bruni 68 • Market Report: Necrotic Tissue • essay by D. L. Snell 84 • Progknostications: Nate Southard • essay by Michael Knost 86 • Inside the Box • short fiction by Nate Southard 92 • Specialty Press Showcase: Cargo Cult Press • essay by Norman L. Rubenstein [as by Norm Rubenstein] 98 • Ghostly Footsteps • short fiction by Norman A. Rubin