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Sick Things: An Anthology of Extreme Creature Horror ed. Cheryl Mullenax (Comet Press, June 14, 2010, 978-0-9820979-7-7, $14.95, 226pp, tp, oa)
Details taken from online listing.

· Devils · Randy Chandler · ss

· Threshold · Fred Venturini · ss

· This Is My Body · Lawrence Conquest · ss

· Hunger Pangs · Matt Kurtz · ss

· Fly on the Wall · Stephanie Bedwell-Grime · ss

· Legacy of the Last Invader · M. Shaw · ss

· Acceptable Losses · Simon Wood · ss Dragged Into Darkness by Simon Wood, Medium Rare Books, 2003

· An Unfortunate Incident at the Slaughterhouse · Harper Hull · ss

· Rotsworth · Kurt Bachard · ss

· Evil, Bent, and Candy-Sweet · Tim Curran · ss

· Heat · Daniel I. Russell · ss

· The Neglected · Sean Logan · ss

· Betty and the Cambion · Ralph Greco, Jr. · ss

· Jimmy Sticks and the Outlaw Critter of Doom · Michael Boatman · ss

· Ranching the Sleore · Aaron Polson · ss

· Paper Angels on Fire · John Shirley · ss

· The Special Son · Jeffrey Hale · ss

Year’s Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 1 ed. Cheryl Mullenax & Randy Chandler--- see under Randy Chandler.

Year’s Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2 ed. Cheryl Mullenax & Randy Chandler--- see under Randy Chandler.

Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 3 ed. Cheryl Mullenax & Randy Chandler--- see under Randy Chandler.

Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 4 ed. Cheryl Mullenax & Randy Chandler--- see under Randy Chandler.

Year’s Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 5: Going Global ed. Cheryl Mullenax & Randy Chandler--- see under Randy Chandler.

Year’s Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 6: Masquerade ed. Cheryl Mullenax & Randy Chandler--- see under Randy Chandler.

Ten Year Stretch ed. Adrian Muller & Martin Edwards--- see under Martin Edwards.

Nightscript: Volume One ed. C. M. Muller (CreateSpace, October 2015, 978-1-51719-055-2, $14.99, 212pp, tp, oa, cover: Nøkken by Theodor Kittelsen from 1904)
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· A Preface to Darkness · C. M. Muller · pr

1 · Everything That’s Underneath · Kristi DeMeester · ss

11 · Strays · Gregory L. Norris · ss

20 · In His Grandmother’s Coat · Charles Wilkinson · ss

32 · The Cuckoo Girls · Patricia Lillie · ss

44 · The Sound That the World Makes · David Surface · ss

57 · Below the Falls · Daniel Mills · ss

68 · The Keep · Kirsty Logan · ss

72 · She Rose from the Water · Kyle Yadlosky · ss

78 · Animalhouse · Clint Smith · nv

100 · Tooth, Tongue, and Claw · Damien Angelica Walters · ss

111 · Momma · Eric J. Guignard · ss

123 · The Trees Are Tall Here · Marc E. Fitch · ss

131 · A Quiet Axe · Michael Kelly · ss

133 · The Death of Yatagarasu · Bethany W. Pope · ss

137 · The Cooing · John Claude Smith · ss

143 · A Knife in My Drawer · Zdravka Evtimova · ss

149 · On Balance · Jason A. Wyckoff · ss

159 · Learning Not to Smile · Ralph Robert Moore · nv

180 · Fisher and Lure · Christopher Burke · ss

186 · The Death of Socrates · Michael Wehunt · ss

Nightscript: Volume Two ed. C. M. Muller (Chthonic Matter, September 3, 2016, 978-1-5374-7216-4, $14.99, 254pp, tp, oa, cover by Edvard Munch)
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1 · The Carnival Arrives in Darkness · Michael Griffin · ss

8 · In the Dark, Quiet Places · Kristi DeMeester · ss

18 · Phantom Airfields · Christopher Slatsky · nv

32 · En Plein Air · J. T. Glover · ss

41 · The Inveterate Establishment of Daddano & Co. · Eric J. Guignard · ss

53 · White Elephants · Malcolm Devlin · ss

65 · Reasons I Hate My Big Sister · Gwendolyn Kiste · ss

77 · Nearness · Ralph Robert Moore · ss

97 · This Lonely Hecatomb · Christopher Ropes · ss

105 · Apartment B · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss

114 · Understairs · Jason A. Wyckoff · ss

128 · As Summer’s Mask Slips · Gordon White · ss

139 · And Elm Do Hate · Nina Shepardson · ss

146 · A Silence of Starlings · Kurt Fawver · ss

163 · Aycayia · Rowley Amato · ss

175 · The White Kisses · Charles Wilkinson · ss

188 · Down by the River · H. V. Chao · ss

204 · Arena · Daniel Mills · ss

213 · From the Fertile Dark · Rebecca J. Allred · ss

220 · No Abiding Place on Earth · Matthew M. Bartlett · ss

227 · Pause for Laughter · José Cruz · ss

Nightscript III ed. C. M. Muller (Chthonic Matter, October 1, 2017, 978-1-976140-48-8, $16.99, 266pp, tp, oa, cover: Madonna by Edvard Munch from 1895)
Given as “Nightscript: Volume Three” on the copyright page (only) and subtitled “An Anthology of Strange & Darksome Tales” on the cover only.
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bp · Preface · C. M. Muller · pr

1 · The Flower Unfolds · Simon Strantzas · ss

14 · A Place with Trees · Rowley Amato · ss

20 · What Little Boys Are Made Of · Malcolm Devlin · ss

30 · Grizzly · M. K. Anderson · ss

37 · Might Be Mordiford · Charles Wilkinson · ss

48 · Palankar · Daniel Braum · ss

63 · The Gestures Remain · Christi Nogle · ss

74 · House of Abjection · David Peak · ss

86 · The Undertow, and They That Dwell Therein · Clint Smith · ss

103 · Downward · Amar Benchikha · ss

112 · The Familiar · Cory Cone · ss

119 · Liquid Air · Inna Effress · ss

129 · The Beasts Are Sleep · Adam Golaski · ss

139 · The Witch House · Jessica Phelps · ss

147 · On the Edge of Utterance · Stephen J. Clark · ss

162 · Homeward Bound Now, Paulino · Armel Dagorn · ss

170 · The Affair · James Everington · ss

180 · When Dark-Eyed Ophelia Sings · Rebecca J. Allred · ss

193 · We, the Rescued · John Howard · nv

210 · Twenty Miles and Running · Christian Riley · ss

217 · Something You Leave Behind · David Surface · ss

228 · Young Bride · Julia Rust · ss

243 · The Other Side of the Hill · M. R. Cosby · ss

Nightscript: Volume Four ed. C. M. Muller (Chthonic Matter, October 2018, 978-1-72598-974-0, $12.00, 237pp, tp, oa, cover by Edvard Munch)
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· Preface · C. M. Muller · pr

1 · Sugar Baby · V. H. Leslie · ss

6 · There Has Never Been Anyone Here · J. T. Glover · ss

20 · The Thing in the Trees · Joanna Parypinski · ss

29 · By the Sea · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss

35 · A Harvest Fit for Monsters · L. S. Johnson · ss

47 · The Monkey Coat · Daniel Braum · ss

61 · Seams · M. Lopes da Silva · ss

78 · A Gut Full of Coal · Mathew Allan Garcia · ss

90 · Crow Woman · April Steenburgh · ss

99 · The Dandelion Disorder · Charles Wilkinson · ss

109 · Of Marble and Mud · Farah Rose Smith · ss

117 · All Is There Already, Just Not Seen Yet · Armel Dagorn · ss

130 · Half-Girls · Cate Gardner · ss

141 · A Different Sunlight · Jackson Kuhl · ss

148 · Cinnamon to Taste · Christi Nogle · ss

160 · The Strigoaica · Ross Smeltzer · ss

175 · Swim Failure · Jennifer Loring · ss

182 · Visions of the Autumn Country · Tim Jeffreys · ss

194 · Stella Maris · Elana Gomel · ss

204 · Rainheads · Mike Weitz · ss

219 · My House Is Out Where the Lights End · Kirsty Logan · ss

Synth 1: An Anthology of Dark SF ed. C. M. Muller (C. M. Muller, March 5, 2019, 978-1-79636-360-9, $10.99, 164pp, tp, oa)
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1 · Surrogate · Dan Stintzi · ss

19 · Flow to the Sea · Steve Toase · ss

35 · House of War · Virginie Selavy · ss

51 · Music in the Age of Sheep · Charles Wilkinson · nv

79 · Aenvalit · Farah Rose Smith · ss

91 · The Transported · Jeffrey Thomas · nv

125 · Empathy · Christopher K. Miller · ss

141 · The Object of Your Desire Comes Closer · Joanna Koch · ss

Synth 2: An Anthology of Dark SF ed. C. M. Muller (C. M. Muller, June 6, 2019, 978-1-09-958805-1, $9.99, 152pp, tp, oa)
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1 · Concerning the Deprivation of Sleep · Tim Major · ss

13 · Infrared · Casilda Ferrante · ss

27 · Daughters of the Void · Dan Stintzi · nv

49 · US · Stephen Oram · ss

65 · Scores · Selene dePackh · nv

87 · Questionable Things · J. T. Glover · ss

103 · Remnants · Tim Jeffreys · nv

127 · Better Places · Zandra Renwick · nv

Synth 3: An Anthology of Dark SF ed. C. M. Muller (, September 5, 2019, 978-1-68921-412-4, $14.99, 170pp, tp, oa)
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1 · To Think Charity Means Love · Charles Wilkinson · ss

19 · Antlions · Elana Gomel · nv Alien Dimensions #12, 2017

41 · Phantom Airfields · Christopher Slatsky · nv Nightscript: Volume Two ed. C. M. Muller, Chthonic Matter, 2016

63 · Promise · Christi Nogle · nv
previously available as an audio download from Escape Pod, March 22, 2018.

85 · The Big Blue Hit · Nik Patrick · nv

109 · Save Scum · E. J. Martin · ss

123 · Second Death · Dan Stintzi · ss

135 · The Voice of Edward Dune · Jon Michael Kelley · ss

Oakland Noir ed. Eddie Muller & Jerry Thompson (Akashic Books, April 4, 2017, 978-1-61775-530-9, $15.95, 272pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]

11 · Put On the Night · Eddie Muller & Jerry Thompson · in

17 · Part I: Not a Soft City

19 · The Bridge Tender · Nick Petrulakis · ss; set on Fruitvale Bridge.

33 · The Wishing Well · Kim Addonizio · ss; set on Pill Hill.

41 · A Murder of Saviors · Keenan Norris · ss; set in Toler Heights.

60 · Divine Singularity · Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder · ss; set in Piedmont Avenue.

72 · White Horse · Katie Gilmartin · ss; set in Bushrod Park.

85 · Part II: What They Call a Clusterfuck

87 · A Town Made of Hustle · Dorothy Lazard · ss; set in Downtown.

106 · The Streets Don’t Love Nobody · Harry Louis Williams, II · ss; set in Brookfield Village.

115 · Bulletproof · Carolyn Alexander · ss; set in McClymonds.

124 · The Three Stooges · Phil Canalin · ss; set in Sausal Creek.

143 · Cabbie · Judy Juanita · ss; set in Eastmont.

152 · Two to Tango · Jamie DeWolf · ss; set in Oakland Hills.

163 · Part III: A View of the Lake

165 · Survivors of Heartache · Nayomi Munaweera · ss; set in Montclair.

179 · Prophets and Spies · Mahmud Rahman · ss; set in Mills College.

200 · Black and Borax · Tom McElravey · ss; set in Haddon Hill.

217 · Waiting for Gordo · Joe Loya · nv; set in Hegenberger Road.

251 · The Handyman · Eddie Muller · ss; set in Alameda.

269 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

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