A travel guide to hauntings and the haunted, to lands with their own power, and to the communities that spring from these strange realms.


What you hold in your hands is a travel guide to the strange and surreal. From arcades along a boardwalk and jetties at the edges of tourist towns, to a rural village in Pakistan and hollows hidden deep within a forest in Pennsylvania, strange things can happen no matter where you are. You can become lost in a city crowded with people, haunted within your own home, and slip from one reality into another in the space of a step.


 


With twenty-two stories by authors such as Brian Keene, Maurice Broaddus, Ai Jiang, Samit Basu, and KS Walker, editors Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Conner take readers on a tour of places where weird things happen. Places where ghosts are real, old gods are hungry, and towns are not as idyllic as they appear to be.


 


Welcome to The Map of Lost Places. Enter at your own risk.


 


Includes original fiction from:


Ai Jiang


Brian Keene


Beth Dawkins


Danian Darrell Jerry


Dimitra Nikolaidou


Fatima Taqvi


Ferdison Cayetano


Gabrielle Paniccia


Jenny Rowe


Joshua Lim


K.S. Walker


Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yaniv


Maurice Broaddus


Muhammed Awal Ahmed


Octavia Cade


Oliver Ferrie


R.L. Meza


Rebecca E. Treasure


Rich Larson


Samit Basu


VH Ncube


Vivian Chou


With an introduction from Linda D. Addisona