Introduction: the dark dangerous forest / Paula Guran -- Sing me your scars / Damien Angelica Walters -- There is no place for sorrow in the kingdom of the cold / Seanan McGuire -- The scavenger's nursery / Maria Dahvana Headley -- Black dog / Neil Gaiman -- 1up / Holly Black -- The three resurrections of Jessica Churchill / Kelly Robson -- Windows underwater / John Shirley -- Ripper / Angela Slatter -- Seven minutes in heaven / Nadia Bulkin -- Those / Sofia Samatar -- The body finder / Kaaron Warren -- The deepwater bride / Tamsyn Muir -- Fabulous beasts / Priya Sharma -- Below the falls / Daniel Mills -- The cripple and starfish / Caitlín R. Kiernan -- The door / Kelley Armstrong -- Daniel's theory about dolls / Stephen Graham Jones -- Kaiju maximus® : "So various, so beautiful, so new" / Kai Ashante Wilson -- Hairwork / Gemma Files -- The glad hosts / Rebecca Campbell -- The absence of words / Swapna Kishore -- Mary, Mary / Kirstyn McDermott -- Cassandra / Ken Liu -- A shot of salt water / Lisa L. Hannett -- Street of the dead house / Robert Lopresti -- The greyness / Kathryn Ptacek -- The devil under the maison blue / Michael Wehunt -- The lily and the horn / Catherynne M. Valente -- Snow / Dale Bailey -- Corpsemouth / John Langan.