“The Sloan Men” originally appeared in Northern Frights 2, Mosaic Press, 1994
“Janie and the Wind” originally appeared in Cemetery Dance #38, Spring 2002
“Night of the Tar Baby” originally appeared in Northern Frights 5, Mosaic Press, 1999
“Other People’s Kids” is original to this collection, 2009
“The Mayor Will Make a Brief Statement and Then Take Questions” originally appeared in ChiZine #33, July-September 2007
“The Pit-Heads” originally appeared in Northern Frights 4, Mosaic Press, 1997
“Slide Trombone” is original to this collection, 2009
“The Inevitability of Earth” originally appeared as “Ground Bound” in On Spec, Spring 1999
“Swamp Witch and the Tea-Drinking Man” originally appeared in Tesseracts Eleven, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2007
“The Delilah Party” originally appeared in Cemetery Dance #56, 2006
“Fly in Your Eye” originally appeared in Horrors: 365 Scary Stories, Barnes & Noble, 1997
“Polyphemus’ Cave” originally appeared in Queer Fear 2, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002
“The Webley” is original to this collection, 2009
All stories copyright © David Nickle.