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• 7 • Introduction: In Nuce (The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition) • essay by Paula Guran
• 9 • The Thing About Ghost Stories • (2018) • novelette by Naomi Kritzer
• 27 • When We Fall, We Forget • (2018) • short story by Angela Slatter
• 41 • The Crow Knight • (2018) • novelette by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
• 69 • True Crime • (2018) • short story by M. Rickert
• 73 • Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone • (2018) • short story by Eden Royce
• 87 • Rust and Bone • (2018) • short story by Mary Robinette Kowal
• 95 • The Black God's Drums • (2018) • novella by
  P. Djèlí Clark^?P. Djeli Clark
• 123 • Raining Street • (2018) • short story by J. S. Breukelaar
• 163 • Big Mother • (2018) • short story by Anya Ow
• 175 • Hainted • (2018) • short story by Ashley Blooms
• 189 • The Governor • (2018) • novelette by Tim Powers
• 211 • Down Where Sound Comes Blunt • (2018) • short story by G. V. Anderson
• 223 • And Yet • (2018) • short story by A. T. Greenblatt
• 235 • Honey • (2018) • short story by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
• 247 • Sour Milk Girls • (2018) • short story by Erin Roberts
• 263 • Four Revelations from the Rusalka Ball • (2018) • short story by Cassandra Khaw
• 265 • Sick Cats in Small Places • (2018) • short fiction by Kaaron Warren (variant of Sick Cats in Small Spaces)
• 281 • He Sings of Salt and Wormwood • (2018) • short fiction by Brian Hodge
• 307 • Second to the Left, and Straight On • (2018) • short story by Jim C. Hines
• 321 • Thanatrauma • (2018) • short fiction by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 331 • Music for the Underworld • (2018) • short story by E. Lily Yu
• 343 • Faint Voices, Increasingly Desperate • (2018) • short story by Alan DeNiro [as by Anya Johanna DeNiro]
• 357 • The Empyrean Light • (2018) • short fiction by Gregory Norman Bossert
• 365 • Big Dark Hole • (2018) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• 375 • Just Another Love Song • (2018) • short story by Kat Howard
• 383 • Tom Is in the Attic • (2018) • short story by Robert Shearman
• 399 • In the End, It Always Turns Out the Same • (2018) • short story by A. C. Wise
• 407 • The Pine Arch Collection • (2018) • short story by Michael Wehunt
• 425 • In This Twilight • (2018) • short fiction by Simon Strantzas
• 441 • A Man Walking His Dog • (2018) • short story by Tim Lebbon
• 449 • Asphalt, River, Mother, Child • (2018) • short story by Isabel Yap
• 467 • Fish Hooks • (2018) • short fiction by Kit Power
• 479 • Blood and Smoke, Vinegar and Ashes • (2018) • novelette by D. P. Watt
• 501 • About the Authors (The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2019 Edition) • essay by uncredited