The author reveals the following story "...began with a dreadful image at the end of a dream. I couldn't remember the other details of that dream, but I was determined to find out where that image might have come from."
Neil Gaiman, John Skipp, Lawrence Block, Ray Bradbury, Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Allan Poe, Jim Shepard, Richard Connell, Amelia Beamer, Joan Aiken, Laura Lee Bahr, William Gay, Jack Ketchum, Mercedes M. Yardley, Steve Rasnic Tem, David J. Schow, Leah Mann, Kevin L. Donihe, Leslianne Wilder & Norman Partridge
Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Garry Kilworth, Harlan Ellison, Scott Baker, Leonid Andreyev, Harvey Jacobs, S.N. Dyer, Edward Bryant, Fritz Leiber, Tanith Lee, Susan Casper, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann, Chet Williamson, Joe Haldeman & Pat Cadigan
Allan Kaster, Peter M. Ball, John Barnes, Chris Lawson, Paul McAuley, Maureen McHugh, Robert Reed, Karl Schroeder, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick & Steve Rasnic Tem
Stephen Jones, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Robert R. McCammon, Cherry Wilder, Stephen Gallagher, Alex Quiroba, Laurence Staig, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gregory Frost, Donald R. Burleson, Nicholas Royle, Thomsa Ligotti, Chet Williamson, Robert Westall, Brian Lumley, Df Lewis, Thomas Tessier, Ian Watson, Karl Edward Wagner & Richard Laymon
Bram Stoker, F. Marion Crawford, Steve Rasnic Tem, Robert E. Howard, Jay O'Connell, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanislaus Eric, Count Stenbock, Eric Stenbock, E. F. Benson, Darrell Schweitzer, Warren Lapine, Alledria Hurt, Lillian Csernica, J. A. Campbell, Darin Kennedy, Joann Verostko, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, Melanie Tem, F. G. Loring, Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg, Hume Nisbet, Stephen Woodworth, Gerri Leen, Charles S. Ramsburg, Jr., Linda Tiernan Kepner, Stephen Antczak, Mary E. Braddon, Victoria Glad, Marilyn "Mattie" Brahen, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Jan Neruda, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Augustus Hare, T. F. Ridgwell & Theophile Gautier
Roberta Lannes, Peter Straub, Elizabeth Massie, K.W. Jetter, Jonathan Carroll, Harlan Ellison, Ray Garton, Michael Marshall Smith, Melanie Tem, Nicholas Royle, Ian R. MacLeod, Karl Edward Wagner, Kim Antieau, Gary Kilworth, Jean-Daniel Brèque, J. L. Comeau, David J. Schow, Poppy Z. Brite, Kim Newman, D F Lewis, Cherry Wilder, Gregory Frost, F. Paul Wilson, David A Sutton, Gene Wolfe, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gahan Wilson, Elizabeth Hand, Thomas Ligotti & Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones, Scott Bradfield, Maura McHugh, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Jonathan Carroll, Alison Littlewood, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Bacon, Don Webb, Ron Weighell, Angela Slatter, Richard Gavin, Michael Chislett, Mark Samuels, Richard Christian Matheson, Dale Bailey, Simon Strantzas, Kristi DeMeester, Steve Rasnic Tem, Reggie Oliver, Tanith Lee, Glen Hirshberg, D. P. Watt, Michael Marshall Smith & Kim Newman
Stephen Jones, Helen Marshall, Conrad Williams, Gemma Files, Alison Littlewood, John Linwood Grant, Richard Gavin, Simon Strantzas, Alison Moore, William F. Nolan, Angela Slatter, Danny Rhodes, Tim Lebbon, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Bailey, Mark Samuels, Felice Picano, Nicholas Royle, Reggie Oliver, Steve Rasnic Tem, Garth Nix, Thana Niveau & Kim Newman
Stephen Jones, K.W. Jetter, Ramsey Campbell, Kathe Koja, Alan Brennert, Robert McCammon, Steve Rasnic Tem, Douglas Clegg, Robert Johnson, S. P. Somtow, Kim Newman, Edward Bryant, Nancy A. Collins, Charles L. Grant, Grant Morrison, Elizabeth Hand, David J. Schow, Russell Flinn, Thomas Ligotti, Joel Lane, Nicholas Royle, Norman Partridge, William F. Nolan, David Starkey, Karl Edward Wagner, Michael Marshall Smith, Dennis Etchison, J. L. Comeau, Thomas Tessier & Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Stephen Jones, Helen Marshall, Dale Bailey, Richard Gavin, Ron Weighell, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Angela Slatter, Rebecca Lloyd, Robert Shearman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Derek John, Dennis Etchison, Clint Smith, Nathan Ballingrud, Ian Tregillis, Ramsey Campbell, Lavie Tidhar, Stephen Volk, Peter Straub, Simon Strantzas & Kim Newman
Stephen Jones, Robert Aickman, Daniel Mills, Richard Gavin, Helen Marshall, Nicholas Royle, Lynda E. Rucker, John Langan, Loren Rhoads, Ron Weighell, Kate Farrell, L. P. Lee, Conrad Williams, Kurt Fawver, Gemma Files, Neil Gaiman, Storm Constantine, Steve Rasnic Tem & Kim Newman
S. T. Joshi, John Shirley, Gemma Files, Jonathan Thomas, Steve Rasnic Tem, Nancy Kilpatrick, WH Pugmire, Lynda E. Rucker, Michael Washburn, Jason V. Brock, Michael Aronovitz, Clint Smith, George Edwards Murray, Richard Gavin, Darrell Schweitzer, Cody Goodfellow, Lynne Jamneck, Reggie Oliver & Stephen Woodworth
