These are the stories of people who live at night: under neon and starlight, and never the light of the sun.
These are the stories of poets and police, tourists and traders; the hidden and the forbidden; the lonely and the lovers.
This is their time.
The Outcast Hours gathers over two dozen brand-new stories from award-winning writers across genres and continents, including bold new fiction from Marina Warner, Frances Hardinge, China Miéville, Sami Shah, Omar Robert Hamilton, Kuzhali Manickavel, Will Hill, Indrapramit Das, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Jeffrey Alan Love, Maha Khan Phillips, and many, many more.
Contents
- Amira Salah-Ahmed — In the Blink of a Light
- Cecilia Ekbäck — Dark Matters
- Celeste Baker — Not Just Ivy
- Daniel Polansky — Swipe Left
- Frances Hardinge — Blind Eye
- Genevieve Valentine — Everyone Knows That They’re Dead. Do You?
- Indrapramit Das — The Patron Saint of Night Puppers
- Jeffrey Alan Love — The Night Mountain
- Jesse Bullington — Above the Light
- Karen Onojaife — Tilt
- Kuzhali Manickavel — A Partial Beginner’s Guide to The Lucy Temerlin Home for Broken Shapeshifters
- Sam Beckbessinger, Lauren Beukes and Dale Halvorsen — This Book Will Find You
- Lavie Tidhar — Bag Man
- Leah Moore — One Gram
- Maha Khan Phillips — Gatsby
- Marina Warner — In This Place of Thorns
- M. Suddain — MiDNIghtT MaRAuDERS
- Omar Robert Hamilton — Rain, Streaming
- Sally Partridge — The Collector
- Sami Shah — Night Shift
- Silvia Moreno-Garcia — Sleep Walker
- S.L. Grey — The Dental Gig
- Will Hill— It Was a Different Time
- William Boyle — Lock-In
- Yukimi Ogawa — Welcome to the Haunted House
- And nine microstories by China Miéville
Edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin
Cover art by Sam Gretton