The Children of Old Leech

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Nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award. There are Things - terrifying Things - whispered of in darkened forests beyond the safe comfort of firelight: The Black Guide, the Broken Ouroboros, the Pageant, Belphegor, Old Leech... These Things have always been here. They predate you. They will outlast you. This book pays tribute to those Things. For We are the Children of Old Leech... and we love you. --- Table of Contents Introduction: Of Whisky and Doppelgängers - Justin Steele The Harrow - Gemma Files Pale Apostle - Jesse Bullington and J. T. Glover Walpurgisnacht - Orrin Grey Learn to Kill - Michael Cisco Good Lord, Show Me the Way - Molly Tanzer Snake Wine - Jeffrey Thomas Love Songs from the Hydrogen Jukebox - T.E. Grau The Old Pageant - Richard Gavin Notes for "The Barn in the Wild" - Paul Tremblay Firedancing - Michael Griffin The Golden Stars at Night - Allyson Bird The Last Crossroads on a Calendar of Yesterdays - Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. The Woman in the Wood - Daniel Mills Brushdogs - Stephen Graham Jones Ymir - John Langan Of a Thousand Cuts - Cody Goodfellow Tenebrionidae - Scott Nicolay and Jesse James Douthit-Nicolay Afterword - Ross E. Lockhart