Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful (61 page)

Cory Skerry
lives in the Northwest U.S. and works at an upscale adult boutique. In his free time, he writes stories, draws comics, copy edits for
Shimmer Magazine,
and goes hiking with his two sweet, goofy pit bulls. He’s been published in
Fantasy,
Ideomancer,
and
Strange Horizons.
For more see: plunderpuss.net.

Cynthia Ward
(www.cynthiaward.com) has published fiction in
Asimov’s
and
Pirates & Swashbucklers,
among other anthologies and magazines, and nonfiction in
Locus Online
and
Weird Tales,
among other magazines and webzines. With Nisi Shawl, she coauthored
Writing the Other: A Practical Approach
(Aqueduct Press), which is based on their diversity writing workshop, Writing the Other: Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction (www.writingtheother.com). Cynthia lives in Los Angeles, where she is not working on a screenplay.

Don Webb
has published twenty books ranging from the nonfiction occult classic
Uncle Setnakt’s Nightbook
to a mystery series from St. Martins Press. A Texan born and bred, he dwells in Austin, the Live Music Capital of the world, with his lovely wife and two cats. In addition to having written four hundred short, stories, he wrote a curse against witch hunting and persecution of occultists called the Mass of Terrible Justice, performed at the Temple of Set Conclave in Salem in 1992, the 300th anniversary of the Salem witch trials.

Leslie What
is a Nebula Award-winning writer and the author of the novel
Olympic Games.
Her story collection,
Crazy Love,
was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She is the fiction editor of
Phantom Drift: New Fabulism
and the nonfiction co-editor of the forthcoming anthology,
Winter Tales: Women Write About Aging.
Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including
Fugue, The Los Angeles Review,
Best New Horror,
Parabola,
Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road,
Bending the Landscape,
Asimov’s,
Flurb,
Calyx,
Utne Reader,
and other places.

Jane Yolen
has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. She has written over three hundred books, been awarded six honorary doctorates in literature, the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the World Fantasy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award among many others. She once got to spend a day in a studio with Kevin Kline while he did voice-over for one of her animated stories.

Acknowledgements

“The Cold Blacksmith” © 2006 by Elizabeth Bear. First publication:
Jim Baen’s Universe,
June 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Ground Whereon She Stands” © 2011 by Leah Bobet. First publication:
Realms of Fantasy,
June 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Witch’s Headstone” © 2007 by Neil Gaiman. First publication:
Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy,
ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois (Berkley). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Lessons with Miss Gray” © 2006 by Theodora Goss. First publication:
Fantasy Magazine 2,
April 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Only Way to Fly” © 1995 by Nancy Holder. First publication:
100 Wicked Witch Stories
edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert A. Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, 1995). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Basement Magic” © 2003 by Ellen Klages. First publication:
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
May 2003. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Nightside” © 1990 by Mercedes Lackey. First publication:
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine,
Spring 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“April In Paris” © 1962, 1990 by Ursula K, Le Guin. First publication:
Fantastic,
September 1962. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Goosle” © 2008 by Margo Lanagan. First Publication:
Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy
edited by Ellen Datlow (Del Rey, 2008). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Mirage and Magia” © 1982 by Tanith Lee. First Publication:
Hecate’s Cauldron
edited by Susan M. Schwartz. (Daw, 1982). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Poor Little Saturday” © 1956 by Madeleine L’Engle. First publication:
Fantastic Universe,
October 1956. Reprinted by permission of Crosswicks, Ltd.

“Catskin” © 2003 by Kelly Link. First publication:
McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
edited by Michael Chabon (
McSweeney’s,
Issue No. 10, 2003). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Bloodlines” © 2010 by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. First publication:
Fantasy,
June 2010. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Way Wind” © 1995 by Andre Norton.
Sisters in Fantasy, Vol. 1
edited by Susan Shwartz & Martin H. Greenberg. (Roc, 1995). Reprinted by permission of the Andre Norton Estate.

“Skin Deep” © 2008 by Richard Parks. First publication:
Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy
edited by Jonathan Strahan. (Night Shade, 2008). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Ill Met in Ulthar” © 2012 by T.A. Pratt. Original to this volume.

“Marlboros and Magic” © 2012 by Linda Robertson. Original to this volume.

“Walpurgis Afternoon” © 2005 by Delia Sherman. First publication:
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
December 2005.

“The World Is Cruel, My Daughter” © 2011 by Cory Skerry. First publication:
Fantasy,
August 2011. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Robbery” © 1995, 2012 by Cynthia Ward. First publication in slightly different form:
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories,
edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, 1995). Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Afterward” © 1999 by Don Webb. First publication:
Not One of Us,
March 21, 1999. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Magic Carpets” © 1995 by Leslie What. First publication:
Realms of Fantasy,
September/October 1995. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Boris Chernevsky’s Hands” © 1982 by Jane Yolen. First publication:
Hecate’s Cauldron
edited by Susan M. Schwartz (Daw, 1982). Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.