“A New Evil” is copyright © 2022 by H.K. Slade. It appears here for the first time.
“Stamp of Approval” is copyright © 2022 by Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet. Reprinted by permission of the authors.
“The Vicar of Sexton’s Deep” is copyright © 2020 by Mike Adamson. It originally appeared in The Black Beacon Book of Mystery. Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Black Beacon Book of Mystery.“Butcher” by Richard S. Prather was originally published in published in Manhunt, June 1954.
Manhunt,Broken Waters, by Frank L. Packard, was originally published in 1925.
Broken Waters“Madam Damnable’s Sewing Circle” is copyright © 2014 by Elizabeth Bear. Originally published in Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology of the Weird West“Evensong” is copyright © 1967 by Lester del Rey. Originally published in Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison. Reprinted by permission of the author’s estate.
Dangerous Visions“The Mage Snatch” is copyright © 2022 by the Estate of Sydney J. Bounds. It appears here for the first time.
“Troubled Star” by George O. Smith was originally published in Startling Stories, February 1953.
Startling Stories“The House by the Headland,” by “Sapper,” originally appeared in 1920.