INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
SCAPEGOATS
by N. Lee Wood
THE FIREBRAND
by Priya Sharma
WORK, HOOK, SHOOT, RIP
by Nick Mamatas
AND THE CARNIVAL LEAVES TOWN
by A. C. Wise
CORPSE ROSE
by Terry Dowling
LAST OF THE FAIR
by Joel Lane
A SMALL PART IN THE PANTOMIME
by Glen Hirshberg
HIBBLER’S MINIONS
by Jeffrey Ford
SWAN SONG AND THEN SOME
by Dennis Danvers
THE LION CAGE
by Genevieve Valentine
THE DARKEST PART
by Stephen Graham Jones
THE POPPING FIELDS
by Robert Shearman
SKULLPOCKET
by Nathan Ballingrud
THE MYSTERIES
by Livia Llewellyn
SCREAMING ELK, MT
by Laird Barron
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ABOUT THE EDITOR
