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:
∙ “Introduction” by Mahvesh Murad & Jared Shurin
∙ “This Book Will Find You” by Sam Beckbessinger & Lauren Beukes & Dale Halvorsen
∙ “It Was a Different Time” by Will Hill
∙ “Ambulance Service” by Sami Shah
∙ “Blind Eye” by Frances Hardinge
∙ “Sleep Walker” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
∙ “Bag Man” by Lavie Tidhar
∙ “Gatsby” by Maha Khan Phillips
∙ “Swipe Left” by Daniel Polansky
∙ “MiDNIghT MaRAuDERS” by M. Suddain
∙ “Everyone Knows That They’re Dead. Do You?” by Genevieve Valentine
∙ “The Collector” by Sally Partridge
∙ “The Patron Saint of Night Puppers” by Indrapramit Das
∙ “Tilt” by Karen Onojaife
∙ “In the Blink of a Light” by Amira Salah-Ahmed
∙ “The Dental Gig” by S. L. Grey
∙ “One Gram” by Leah Moore
∙ “This Place of Thorns” by Marina Warner
∙ “Not Just Ivy” by Celeste Baker
∙ “Dark Matters” by Cecilia Ekbäck
∙ “Above the Light” by Jesse Bullington
∙ “Welcome to the Haunted House” by Yukimi Ogawa
∙ “Rain, Streaming” by Omar Robert Hamilton
∙ “Lock-In” by William Boyle
∙ “The Night Mountain” by Jeffrey Alan Love
∙ “A Partial Beginner’s Guide to The Lucy Temerlin Home for Broken Shapeshifters” by Kuzhali Manickavel
∙ Microstories (9) by China Miéville
CURATOR'S NOTE (The International Noir Bundle)
«Terrific anthology even though I'm in it (my story did get nominated for a CWA Dagger Award though, I'm just saying) by two of the hardest working editors in any field. Themed around "night", it is naturally filled with any and all modern variations on noir.» – Lavie Tidhar
