Paula Guran - The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu

There is nothing so offensive as a strident, pushing Jew who affects American dress while taking the subways to and fro, I suppose.

As it turns out, I am the New York horror. I do indeed look a good deal like my father. And I am beautiful.

“A Clutch” © 2016 Laird Barron. Original to this volume.

“I Believe That We Will Win” © 2016 Nadia Bulkin. Original to this volume.

“The Sea Inside” © 2016 Amanda Downum. Original to this volume.

“Those Who Watch” © 2016 Ruthanna Emrys. Original to this volume.

“An Open Letter to Mister Edgar Allan Poe, from a Fervent Admirer” © 2016 Estate of Michael Shea. Original to this volume.

“Deep Eden” © 2016 Richard Gavin. Original to this volume.

“In the Sacred Cave” © 2016 Lois H. Gresh. Original to this volume.

“Introduction: Who, What, When, Where, Why . . .” © 2016 Paula Guran. Original to this volume.

“In Syllables of Elder Seas” © 2016 Lisa L. Hannett. Original to this volume.

“It’s All the Same Road in the End” © 2016 Brian Hodge. Original to this volume.

“The Peddler’s Tale, Or, Isobel’s Revenge” © 2014 Caitlín R. Kiernan. A version of this story was privately published in Sirena’s Digest 95 .

“Outside the House, Watching for the Crows” © 2016 John Langan. Original to this volume.

“Falcon-and-Sparrows” © 2016 Yoon Ha Lee. Original to this volume.

“The Cthulhu Navy Wife” © 2016 Sandra McDonald. Original to this volume.

“In the Ruins of Mohenjo-Daro” © 2016 Usman T. Malik. Original to this volume.

“Caro in Carno” © 2016 Helen Marshall. Original to this volume.

“Legacy of Salt” © 2016 Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Original to this volume.

“Backbite” © 2016 Norman Partridge. Original to this volume.

“A Shadow of Thine Own Design” © 2016 W. H. Pugmire. Original to this volume.

“Variations on Lovecraftian Themes” © 2016 Veronica Schanoes

“Just Beyond the Trailer Park” © 2016 John Shirley. Original to this volume.

“Alexandra Lost” © 2016 Simon Strantzas. Original to this volume.

“Umbilicus” © 2016 Damien Angelica Walters

“The Future Eats Everything” © 2016 Don Webb. Original to this volume.

“I Do Not Count the Hours” © 2016 Michael Wehunt. Original to this volume.

“I Dress My Lover in Yellow” © 2016 A. C. Wise. Original to this volume.

Paula Guranis the senior editor for Prime Books. She edits the annual Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror anthology series. Guran has also edited around thirty other anthologies as well as numerous novels and single-author collections. She edited the Juno fantasy imprint from its small press inception through to its incarnation as an imprint of Pocket Books. The recipient of two Bram Stoker awards, Guran has been nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award. She lives in Akron, Ohio.

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First published in Great Britain in 2016 by Robinson

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