Author Jay Sturner

 Thank you to Bruce Swanson for the honor.

STORIES AND POEMS OF THE DARKLY FANTASTIC [All titles previously published in various magazines prior to 2015] CONTENTS Sketch by Sketch Faerystruck Down What We Know of Goddesses Strings The Girl with the Crooked Spine Misery of He Who is Outside the Realm of Man Time to Grow Up Where There's No Time at All Belch Charon Falls into the Styx The Hunchback's Captive The Politician's New Heart Post-Funeral Mission to Mars Intimate Universes Penumbra The Unfortunate Heartbreak of Faritook the Earwig Red Icicles Ghoul of the Enamel Deal Down at the Hospital The Tramp Clown's Secret Not for Mortal Eyes The Blackout Killer Making Amends Spiral of Flies The Dark Island Publication History Acknowledgments About the Author/About the Cover Artist