The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron

Nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award.

There are Things - terrifying Things - whispered of in darkened forests beyond the safe comfort of firelight: The Black Guide, the Broken Ouroboros, the Pageant, Belphegor, Old Leech... These Things have always been here. They predate you. They will outlast you. This book pays tribute to those Things. For We are the Children of Old Leech... and we love you.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Of Whisky and Doppelgängers - Justin Steele
The Harrow - Gemma Files
Pale Apostle - Jesse Bullington and J. T. Glover
Walpurgisnacht - Orrin Grey
Learn to Kill - Michael Cisco
Good Lord, Show Me the Way - Molly Tanzer
Snake Wine - Jeffrey Thomas
Love Songs from the Hydrogen Jukebox - T.E. Grau
The Old Pageant - Richard Gavin
Notes for "The Barn in the Wild" - Paul Tremblay
Firedancing - Michael Griffin
The Golden Stars at Night - Allyson Bird
The Last Crossroads on a Calendar of Yesterdays - Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
The Woman in the Wood - Daniel Mills
Brushdogs - Stephen Graham Jones
Ymir - John Langan
Of a Thousand Cuts - Cody Goodfellow
Tenebrionidae - Scott Nicolay and Jesse James Douthit-Nicolay
Afterword - Ross E. Lockhart