Haunted Legends

Darkly thrilling, these twenty new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over.Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas recruited Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin Kiernan, Catherynne M. Valente, Kit Reed, Ekaterina Sedia, and thirteen other fine writers to create stories unlike any they've written before. Tales to make readers shiver with fear, jump at noises in the night, keep the lights on. These twenty nightmares, brought together by two renowned editors of the dark fantastic, are delightful visions sure to send shivers down the spines of horror readers.Table of Contents“Introduction” Nick Mamatas“Knickerbocker Holiday” Richard Bowes“That Girl” Kaaron Warren“Akbar” Kit Reed“The Spring Heel” Steven Pixie“As Red as Red” Caitlin R. Kiernan“Tin Cans” Ekaterina Sedia“Shoebox Train Wreck” John Mantooth“Fifteen Panels Depicting the Sadness of the Baku and the Jotai” Catherynne M. Valente“La Llorona” Carolyn Turgeon“Face Like a Monkey” Carrie Laben“Down Atsion Road” Jeffrey Ford“Return to Mariabronn” Gary A. Braunbeck“Following Double-Face Woman” Erzebet YellowBoy“Oaks Park” M. K. Hobson“For Those in Peril on the Sea” Stephen Dedman“The Foxes” Lily Hoang“The Redfield Girls” Laird Barron“Between Heaven and Hull” Pat Cadigan“Chucky Comes to Liverpool” Ramsey Campbell“The Folding Man” Joe R. Lansdale