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• 9 • What the Hell Do You Mean by "Dark Fantasy and Horror?" • essay by Paula Guran
• 13 • The Horrid Glory of Its Wings • (2009) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• 23 • Lowland Sea • (2009) • novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
• 41 • Copping Squid • (2009) • novelette by Michael Shea
• 56 • Monsters • (2009) • novelette by Stewart O'Nan
• 73 • The Brink of Eternity • (2009) • short story by Barbara Roden
• 85 • Frost Mountain Picnic Massacre • (2009) • short story by Seth Fried
• 95 • Sea-Hearts • (2009) • novella by Margo Lanagan
• 138 • A Haunted House of Her Own • (2009) • short story by Kelley Armstrong
• 153 • Headstone in Your Pocket • (2009) • short story by Paul Tremblay
• 166 • The Coldest Girl in Coldtown • juvenile • [The Coldest Girl in Coldtown] • (2009) • novelette by Holly Black
• 182 • Strange Scenes from an Unfinished Film • (2009) • short story by Gary McMahon
• 190 • A Delicate Architecture • (2009) • short story by Catherynne M. Valente
• 196 • The Mystery • (2009) • short fiction by Peter Atkins
• 205 • Variations on a Theme from Seinfeld • (2009) • short story by Peter Straub
• 211 • The Wide, Carnivorous Sky • (2009) • novella by John Langan
• 251 • Certain Death for a Known Person • (2009) • novelette by Steve Duffy
• 267 • The Ones Who Got Away • (2009) • short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• 274 • Leng • (2009) • short fiction by Marc Laidlaw
• 292 • Torn Away • (2009) • short fiction by Joe R. Lansdale
• 301 • The Nowhere Man • (2009) • short story by Sarah Pinborough
• 314 • The Bone's Prayer • (2009) • short story by
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• 327 • The Water Tower • (2009) • short story by John Mantooth
• 337 • In the Porches of My Ears • (2009) • short story by Norman Prentiss
• 348 • The Cinderella Game • (2009) • short story by Kelly Link
• 355 • The Jacaranda Smile • (2009) • short story by Gemma Files
• 366 • The Other Box • (2009) • short fiction by Gerard Houarner
• 388 • White Charles • [Kyle Murchison Booth] • (2009) • novelette by Sarah Monette
• 406 • Everything Dies, Baby • (2009) • short story by Nadia Bulkin
• 414 • Bruise for Bruise • (2009) • short story by Robert Davies
• 422 • Respects • (2009) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 433 • Diamond Shell • (2009) • short story by Deborah Biancotti
• 446 • Nub Hut • (2009) • short story by Kurt Dinan
• 452 • The Cabinet Child • (2009) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 458 • Cherrystone and Shards of Ice • (2009) • short story by Ekaterina Sedia
• 469 • The Crevasse • (2009) • short story by Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud
• 482 • Vic • (2009) • short fiction by Maura McHugh
• 490 • Halloween Town • (2009) • novella by Lucius Shepard
• 543 • The Long, Cold Goodbye • (2009) • novelette by Holly Phillips
• 562 • What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night • (2009) • short story by Michael Marshall Smith