Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xi • Foreword: Remembering Kathy Speakman • essay by Terry Brooks
• xv • Introduction: The End of Magic's Beginning • essay by Shawn Speakman
• 1 • Castle Coeurlieu • novelette by Naomi Novik
• 23 • A Slow Kill • [The Vault of Heaven] • short story by Peter Orullian
• 53 • And Men Will Mine the Mountain for Our Souls • short story by Seanan McGuire
• 69 • Day One • [The Dresden Files • 15.7] • short story by Jim Butcher
• 97 • Brightwine in the Garden of Tsitsian Village • [The Song of Shattered Sands] • novelette by Bradley P. Beaulieu
• 141 • Aokigahara • short story by John A. Pitts
• 159 • The Decoy • [The Wars of Light and Shadow] • short story by Janny Wurts
• 185 • The King's Despatcher • [The Runelords short fiction] • short story by Dave Wolverton [as by David Farland]
• 209 • Figures • short story by Rachel Caine
• 215 •
  The Red-Rimmed Eyes of Tóu Mǎ^?The Red-Rimmed Eyes of Tou Ma
  • short story by Aidan Moher
• 243 • Magic Beans • short story by Django Wexler
• 293 • The Hedgewitch • [The Queens of Renthia] • short story by Sarah Beth Durst
• 311 • Victim with a Capital V • [Victim with a Capital V] • short story by Scott Sigler
• 339 • A Duel of Evils; or, The Fall of Kethia • [Raven's Shadow] • short story by Anthony Ryan
• 365 • The Raven • [Bloodbound (Erin Lindsey)] • short story by Erin Lindsey
• 395 • Bulletproof • short story by Mark Lawrence
• 419 • The Gunnie • [Gunnie Rose] • short story by Charlaine Harris
• 445 • Little Wren and the Big Forest • [The Legends of the First Empire] • short story by Michael J. Sullivan
• 473 • The Thrill • [The Stormlight Archive] • short story by Brandon Sanderson
• 535 • The Last Flowers of the Spring Witch • [The Annwn Cycle] • short story by Shawn Speakman