Unnatural Creatures

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“Inksplot” copyright © Gahan Wilson, first published in Again, Dangerous Visions, 1972.

“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” © E. Lily Yu, 2011.

“Ozioma the Wicked” copyright © Nnedi Okorafor.

“Sunbird” copyright © 2006 by Neil Gaiman. First appeared in Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders, 2006.

“The Sage of Theare” © 1982 Diana Wynne Jones, first published in Hecate’s Cauldron, by Daw, 1982.

“Moveable Beast” copyright © Maria Dahvana Headley, 2012.

“The Flight of the Horse” © 1969, 1999 by Larry Niven.

PRISMATICA Copyright © 1977 by Mercury Press, Inc. for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction; renewed Copyright © 2004 by Samuel R. Delany. Used by permission of the author and Henry Morrison, Inc., his agents.

“The Manticore, the Mermaid, and Me” copyright © Megan Kurashige.

“The Compleat Werewolf” Copyright © 1942 by Anthony Boucher. First appeared in Unknown Worlds, published by Street & Smith Publications, Inc. Now appears in Unnatural Creatures. Reprinted by permissions of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

“The Smile on the Face” copyright © Nalo Hopkinson.

“Or All the Seas with Oysters” Originally published in GALAXY May 1958. Copyright © 1958 by Galaxy Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by arrangement with Owlswick Literary Agency, on behalf of the Estate of Avram Davidson.

“Come Lady Death” copyright © 1963 by Peter S. Beagle; copyright renewed 1991 by Peter S. Beagle. First appeared in Atlantic, September 1963. Used by permission of Avicenna Development Corporation.

Interior illustrations copyright © Briony Morrow-Cribbs.

UNNATURAL CREATURES

Collection copyright © 2013 by Neil Gaiman

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