A SMALL ROOM IN KOBOLDTOWN,
by Michael Swanwick
This story was selected for Black Cat Weekly
by World Fantasy Award-winning editor
Darrell Schweitzer, the former editor of
Weird Tales and Worlds of Fantasy & Horror.
That winter, Will le Fey held down a job working for a haint politician named Salem Toussaint. Chiefly, his function was to run errands while looking conspicuously solid. He fetched tax forms for the alderman’s constituents, delivered stacks of documents to trollish functionaries, fixed L&I violations, presented boxes of candied John-the-Conqueror root to retiring secretaries, absent-mindedly dropped slim envelopes containing twenty-dollar bills on desks. When somebody important died, he brought a white goat to the back door of the Fane of Darkness to be sacrificed to the
