Three time Bram Stoker Award winner Tom Piccirilli and Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Editor Edward McFadden bring you 20 tales of dark fantasy and horror. Rose pedals whirl in the rising wind as the shadows thicken. Read these Epitaphs from: Linda D. Addison, Mike Allen, Trey R. Barker, Warren Newton Beath, Tippi Blevins, Dan Clore, Corrine De Winter, James S. Dorr, Rhonda Eikamp, Cindie Geddes, Harrison Howe, Gerard Daniel Houarner, Randall Ivey, Michael Laimo, Natalia Lincoln, Edward McFadden, Adam Meyer, K.K. Ormond, Wendy Rathbone, Michelle Scalise, Vera Searles, Sue Storm, Honna Swenson, G. Warlock Vance, and Thomas Wiloch.Know that you hold in your hand ghosts and relevance as you turn these pages. Words carved into soul as well as stone. Don't rest in peace...read on and thrill, tremble, and burn. Cover by Bob Eggleton Winner of 7 Hugo Awards and 11 Chesley Awards