Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers: Magical Tales of Love and Seduction

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Introduction copyright © 1998 by Terri Windling. Portions of the text first appeared in the “Folkroots” column of Realms of Fantasy Magazine, 1997.

“My Lady of the Hearth” copyright © 1998 by Storm Constantine

“The Fairie Cony-catcher copyright © 1998 by Delia Sherman

“Broke Heart Blues” copyright © 1998 by The Ontario Review Press

“Wolfed” copyright © 1998 by Tanith Lee

“Ashes on Her Lips” copyright © 1998 by Edward Bryant

“Mirrors” copyright © 1998 by Garry Kilworth

“Midnight Express” copyright © 1998 by Michael Swanwick

“No Human Hands to Touch” copyright © 1998 by Elizabeth E. Gatland

“Attachments” copyright © 1998 by Pat Murphy

“In the Season of Rains” copyright © 1998 by Ellen Steiber

“Bird Count” copyright © 1998 by Jane Yolen

“A Wife of Acorn, Leaf, and Rain” copyright © 1998 by Dave Smeds

“Tastings” copyright © 1998 by Neil Gaiman

“The Sweet of Bitter Bark and Burning Clove” copyright © 1998 by Doris Egan

“Heat” copyright © 1998 by Melissa Lee Shaw

“The Eye of the Storm” copyright © 1998 by Kelley Eskridge

“O for a Fiery Gloom and Thee” copyright © 1998 by Brian Stableford

“The Light That Passes Through You” copyright © 1998 by Conrad Williams

“Private Words” copyright © 1998 by Mark. W. Tiedemann

“The House of Nine Doors: The Man Who Came But Did Not Go” copyright © 1998 by Ellen Kushner

“Persephone, of Why the Winters Seem to Be Getting Longer” copyright © 1998 by Wendy Froud

“Taking Loup” copyright © 1998 by Bruce Glassco

copyright © 1998 by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

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