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.
The Outcast Hours
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Table of Contents
Introduction, Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin
This Book Will Find You, Sam Beckbessinger, Lauren Beukes and Dale Halvorsen
It Was a Different Time, Will Hill
Ambulance Service, Sami Shah
Blind Eye, Frances Hardinge
Sleep Walker, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Bag Man, Lavie Tidhar
Gatsby, Maha Khan Phillips
Swipe Left, Daniel Polansky
MiDNIghT MaRAuDERS, M. Suddain
Everyone Knows That They’re Dead. Do You? Genevieve Valentine
The Collector, Sally Partridge
The Patron Saint of Night Puppers, Indrapramit Das
Tilt, Karen Onojaife
In the Blink of a Light, Amira Salah-Ahmed
The Dental Gig, S. L. Grey
One Gram, Leah Moore
This Place of Thorns, Marina Warner
Not Just Ivy, Celeste Baker
Dark Matters, Cecilia Ekbäck
Above the Light, Jesse Bullington
Welcome to the Haunted House, Yukimi Ogawa
Rain, Streaming, Omar Robert Hamilton
Lock-In, William Boyle
The Night Mountain, Jeffrey Alan Love
A Partial Beginner’s Guide to The Lucy Temerlin Home for Broken Shapeshifters, Kuzhali Manickavel
Microstories by China Miéville
Author Description
Mahvesh Murad is an editor, critic and voice artist from Karachi, Pakistan. She is the editor of the award-winning Apex Book of World SF 4, host of the interview podcast Midnight in Karachi for Tor.com and the voice of many international radio and TV commercials, as well as multiple short stories.
Jared Shurin has edited or co-edited 12 anthologies in partnership with Tate Britain, the Egypt Exploration Society, the Royal Observatory and others. He has been a finalist for the British Science Fiction and Hugo Awards, and twice won the British Fantasy Award. Jared was the editor of the award-winning geek culture website Pornokitsch.