Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (50 page)

Genevieve Valentine
’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in
Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Apex,
and others, and in the anthologies
Federations, The Living Dead 2, Running with the Pack, Teeth,
and more. Her nonfiction has appeared in
Lightspeed
,
Tor.com
, and
Fantasy Magazine
. Her first novel,
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
, is forthcoming from Prime Books in 2011. Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her blog: www.genevievevalentine.com.

Jeff VanderMeer
is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award, with novels published in over twenty languages. His short fiction has appeared in
Asimov’s SF Magazine
,
Black Clock
,
Conjunctions
,
Clarkesworld
, and many anthologies. He reviews books for the
New York Times Book Review
,
Los
Angeles Times
,
Washington Post
, and many others.

Publication Credits

“The Monsters of Heaven” Copyright © 2007 Nathan Ballingrud. Originally published in
Inferno
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Rawhead Rex” Copyright © 1985 Clive Barker. Originally published in
Books of Blood Volume 3
. Reprinted by permission of the rights holder.

“Proboscis” Copyright © 2006 Laird Barron. Originally published in
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Absolute Zero” Copyright © 2011 Nadia Bulkin. Original to this volume.

“The Serpent and the Hatchet Gang” Copyright © 2008 F. Brett Cox. Originally published in
Black Static.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Blood Makes Noise” Copyright © 1999 Gemma Files. Originally published in
TransVersions
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“After Moreau” Copyright © 2008 Jeffrey Ford. Originally published in
Clarkesworld
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Under Cover of Night” Copyright © 2007 Christopher Golden. Originally published in
Five Strokes to Midnight
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Among Their Bright Eyes” Copyright © 2006 Alaya Dawn Johnson. Originally published in
Fantasy Magazine
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Little Monsters,” Copyright © 2011 Stephen Graham Jones. Original to this volume.

“The Kraken” Copyright © 2008 Michael Kelly. Originally published in
The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Underneath Me, Steady Air” Copyright © 2011 Carrie Laben. Original to this volume.

“The Changeling” Copyright © 2006 Sarah Langan. Originally published in
Phantom Issue Zero.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Godzilla’s Twelve Step Program” Copyright © 1994 Joe R. Lansdale. Originally appeared in
Writer of the Purple Rage
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Monster” Copyright © 2005, Kelly Link. Originally published in
Noisy Outlaws
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Deep End” Copyright © 1987 Robert R. McCammon. Originally published in
Night Visions 4
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Familiar” Copyright © 2005 China Miéville. Originally published in
Looking for Jake.
Used by permission of Del Rey Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

“The Hollow Man” Copyright © 1991 Norman Partridge. Originally published in
Grue Magazine.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Wishbones” Copyright © 2006 Cherie Priest. Originally published in
Aegri Somnia.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Ropy Thing” Copyright © 1999 Al Sarrantonio. Originally published in
999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Machine Is Perfect, The Engineer Is Nobody” Copyright © 2008 Brett Alexander Savory. Originally published in
Taddle Creek
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Not from Around Here” Copyright © 1990 David J. Schow. Originally published in
Seeing Red
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Creature from the Black Lagoon” Copyright © 2004 Jim Shepard. Published in
Love and Hydogren: New and Selected Stories
(Vintage). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Replacements” Copyright © 1992 Lisa Tuttle. Originally published in
Metahorror
. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Keep Calm and Carillon” Copyright © 2009 Genevieve Valentine. Originally published in
Farrago’s Wainscot.
Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Third Bear” Copyright © 2007 Jeff VanderMeer. Originally published in
Clarkesworld Magazine.
Reprinted by permission of the author.