Conrad Williams, "Outfangthief" 2001. Originally published in The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women, ed. Stephen Jones (Constable & Robinson). Reprinted by permission of the author.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, "Gentleman of the Old School" 2005. Originally published in Dark Delicacies: Original Stores of the Macabre from Today's Greatest Horror Writers, ed. Del Howison & Jeff Gelb (Carroll & Graf). Reprinted by permission of the author.
About the Editor.
Paula Guran is the editor of Pocket Book's Juno fantasy imprint and nonfiction editor for Weird Tales. In an earlier life, she produced weekly e-mail newsletter DarkEcho (winning two Bram Stoker Awards, an International Horror Guild Award award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination) and edited Horror Garage magazine (earning another IHG and a second World Fantasy nomination). Guran has contributed reviews, interviews, and articles to numerous professional publications. She's also done a great deal of other various and sundry work in sf/f/h publishing. Earlier anthologies Guran has edited include Embraces, Best New Paranormal Romance, Best New Romantic Fantasy, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2010, and Zombies: The Recent Dead. The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011 and Halloween! are forthcoming this year.
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