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Monsters of Heaven

"Is Heaven a dark place?" -Nathan Ballingrud

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Replacements

"The body of the one he had killed was gone, perhaps eaten by a passing dog, perhaps returned to whatever strange dimension had spawned it." -Lisa Tuttle

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Familiar

"There were only two nights that it could fly, before it was too large, and it loved them." -China Mieville

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The Deep End

"What if there‘s nothing here, and I‘m just treading dirty water? What if everything I‘ve thought is wrong—and I‘m losing my mind? No, no, I‘m right. I know I am. Dear God. I have to be right." -Robert R. McCammon

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Rawhead Rex

“If you know something about these experiences that I don‘t... please tell me. I want to know, to understand. God, I have to understand.” -Clive Barker

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Underneath Me, Steady Air

"I could feel my brain shuffling and reshuffling all this information, trying to make the pieces fit, and I didn‘t like the futility of the feeling." -Carrie Laben

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Underneath Me, Steady Air

"Then I started drinking to forget that I had to work the next day. Then I did forget that I had to work the next day." -Carrie Laben

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The Creature from the Black Lagoon

"...I was like the pain of a needle frond in the foot: I filled the moment entirely, and then vanished." -Jim Shepard

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The Creature from the Black Lagoon

"...schools of fish that moved like light on leaves. They slipped away like memories." -Jim Shepard

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