Stories: All-New Tales

“A Life in Fictions” by Kat Howard. Copyright © 2010 by Kat Howard.

“Let the Past Begin” by Jonathan Carroll. Copyright © 2010 by Jonathan Carroll.

“The Therapist” by Jeffery Deaver. Copyright © 2010 by Jeffery Deaver.

“Parallel Lines” by Tim Powers. Copyright © 2010 by Tim Powers.

“The Cult of the Nose” by Al Sarrantonio. Copyright © 2010 by Al Sarrantonio.

“Human Intelligence” by Kurt Andersen. Copyright © 2010 by Kurt Andersen.

“Stories” by Michael Moorcock. Copyright © 2010 by Michael Moorcock.

“The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon” by Elizabeth Hand. Copyright © 2010 by Elizabeth Hand.

“The Devil on the Staircase” by Joe Hill. Copyright © 2010 by Joe Hill.

STORIES. Copyright © 2010 by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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