Read:

• The introduction to Shades of Blue & Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War by Steve Berman
• “New Boo,” The introduction to Halloween: Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre by Paula Guran

Interviews with 2012 “Year’s Best” Authors:

• K.J. Parker on “A Small Price to Pay for Birdsong”
• C.S.E. Cooney on “The Last Sophia”
• Bradley Denton on “The Adakian Eagle”
• Alexandra Duncan on “Rampion”
• Chris Lawson on “Canterbury Hollow”
• Marissa Lingen on “Some of them Closer”
• Kelly Link on “The Summer People”

Goodies!

• Read the introductions to Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters!
• Read the introduction to Halloween!
• Mayan December Book Trailer
• Learn more about the background for the alternative history of Ekaterina Sedia’s Heart of Iron
• About Gardner Dozois, author of When the Great Days Come
• Download Gardner Dozois’ bibliography (PDF file)

Celebrate Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genvieve Valentine

• Visit the Circus Tresaulti Web Site
• Download a full size, printable ticket/bookmark to the circus (PDF file).

Free Nonfiction!

• What the Hell Do You Mean by “Dark Fantasy and Horror”?: Introduction to The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2010 by Paula Guran
• Instructions for Use: Introduction to The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 by Paula Guran

Free Fiction!

• Free Fiction: “Northwest Passage” by Barbara Roden by Barbara Roden
• Free Fiction: Clark Ashton Smith’s “The Return of the Sorcerer”
• Way of the Wizard Free Fiction Page