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• Introduction (Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales) • essay by Ellen Datlow
• O Terrible Bird • poem by Sandra Kasturi
• The Obscure Bird • (2010) • short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Mathematical Inevitability of Corvids • novelette by Seanan McGuire
• Something About Birds • novelette by Paul Tremblay
• Great Blue Heron • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Season of the Raptors • short story by Richard Bowes
• The Orphan Bird • novelette by Alison Littlewood
• The Murmurations of Vienna Von Drome • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Blyth's Secret • novelette by Mike O'Driscoll
• The Fortune of Sparrows • short story by Usman T. Malik
• Pigeon from Hell • short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Secret of Flight • short story by A. C. Wise
• Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring • (1994) • novelette by M. John Harrison
• A Little Bird Told Me • novelette by Pat Cadigan
• The Acid Test • short story by Livia Llewellyn
• The Crow Palace • novelette by Priya Sharma