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• 1 • Introduction (By Blood We Live) • essay by John Joseph Adams
• 3 • Snow, Glass, Apples • (1995) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 13 • The Master of Rampling Gate • (1984) • novelette by Anne Rice
• 33 • Under St. Peter's • (2007) • novelette by Harry Turtledove
• 45 • Child of an Ancient City • (1988) • novelette by Tad Williams
• 75 • Lifeblood • (2003) • novelette by Michael A. Burstein
• 88 • Endless Night • (2008) • short story by Barbara Roden
• 106 • Infestation • (2008) • short story by Garth Nix
• 120 • Life Is the Teacher • [Kitty Short Fiction] • (2008) • short story by Carrie Vaughn
• 134 • The Vechi Barbat • (2007) • short story by Nancy Kilpatrick
• 148 • The Beautiful, The Damned • (1995) • short fiction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 161 • Pinecones • (2006) • short fiction by David Wellington
• 165 • Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu • (1994) • novelette by Norman Partridge
• 180 • Foxtrot at High Noon • short story by
  Сергей Лукьяненко^?Sergei Lukyanenko
  (trans. of
  Полуденный фокстрот^?Poludennyy fokstrot
  ) [as by Sergei Lukyanenko]
• 189 • This Is Now • (2004) • short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• 199 • Blood Gothic • (1985) • short story by Nancy Holder
• 204 • Mama Gone • (1991) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 209 • Abraham's Boys • (2004) • short story by Joe Hill
• 224 • Nunc Dimittis • (1983) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 240 • Hunger • (2007) • short fiction by Gabriela Lee
• 250 • Ode to Edvard Munch • (2006) • short story by
  Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
• 256 • Finders Keepers • (2008) • short fiction by L. A. Banks
• 275 • After the Stone Age • (2004) • short fiction by Brian Stableford
• 286 • Much at Stake • (1991) • short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 297 • House of the Rising Sun • (2005) • short story by Elizabeth Bear (variant of The House of the Rising Sun)
• 302 • A Standup Dame • (2008) • short story by Lilith Saintcrow (variant of A Stand-Up Dame)
• 316 • Twilight • [Women of the Otherworld Short Fiction • 30] • (2007) • novelette by Kelley Armstrong
• 333 • In Darkness, Angels • (1983) • novelette by Eric Van Lustbader
• 355 • Sunrise on Running Water • (2007) • novelette by Barbara Hambly
• 372 • Hit • (2008) • short story by Bruce McAllister
• 385 • Undead Again • (2005) • short story by Ken MacLeod
• 388 • Peking Man • (1996) • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 396 • Necros • (1986) • short story by Brian Lumley
• 409 • Exsanguinations: A Handbook for the Educated Vampire by Anna S. Oppenhagen-Petrescu • (2005) • short fiction by Catherynne M. Valente
• 415 • Lucy, in Her Splendor • (2003) • short story by Charles Coleman Finlay
• 426 • The Wide, Carnivorous Sky • novella by John Langan
• 464 • One for the Road • [Jerusalem's Lot] • (1977) • short story by Stephen King
• 477 • For Further Reading (By Blood We Live) • essay by Ross E. Lockhart