Can you hear the wind-blown whispers floating on night’s chill currents, the creak of the staircase in the dead of night? Can you hear the fingernails scratching on the closed coffin lid? They’ll come knocking at midnight, so listen. Listen to the tapping at the window, and the mad laughter in the graveyard. Listen to the beating of your tell-tale heart.
Listen . . .
These are the songs from dead singers.
Seventeen unforgettable tales from Tim Pratt, James S. Dorr, Charlee Jacob, Scott Thomas, Paul Finch, Regina Mitchell, Carol Weekes, Maria Alexander, Iain Rowan, Edo van Belkom, Gary W. Conner, Joel Lane, Brian A. Hopkins, Shikhar Dixit, John Dixon, Tim Curran, and Gary A. Braunbeck.
Michael Kelly is the Series Editor for the Year's Best Weird Fiction, and author of Undertow and Other Laments, and Scratching the Surface; as well as co-author of the novel Ouroboros.
His short fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including All Hallows, Best New Horror, Black Static, Dark Arts, the Hint Fiction Anthology, PostScripts, Space & Time, Supernatural Tales, Tesseracts 13, and Weird Fiction Review.
Michael is a World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award Nominee.