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Shirley Jackson and Locus Award-nominated Anthology

A fascinating collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers.

Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn.

And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books. Every language has a word for them. Every culture knows their traditions. Every religion, every history has them hiding in their dark places.

There is no part of the world that does not know them. They are the Djinn. They are among us.

With stories from Neil Gaiman, Nnedi Okorafor, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherine Faris King, Claire North, E.J. Swift, Hermes (trans. Robin Moger), Jamal Majoub, James Smythe, J.Y. Yang, Kamila Shamsie, Kirsty Logan, K.J. Parker, Kuzhali Manickavel, Maria Dahvana Headley, Monica Byrne, Nada Adel Sobhi, Saad Hossein, Sami Shah, Sophia Al-Maria and Usman Malik.

Table of Contents:

• Amal El-Mohtar - A Tale of Ash in Seven Birds
• Catherine King - Queen of Sheba
• Claire North - Hurrem and the Djinn
• E.J. Swift - The Jinn Hunter's Apprentice
• Helene Wecker - Majnun
• Hermes (trans. Robin Moger) - The Djinn Falls in Love
• Jamal Mahjoub - Duende 2077
• James Smythe - The Sand in the Glass is Right
• J.Y. Yang - Glass Lights
• Kamila Shamsie - The Congregation
• Kirsty Logan - The Spite House
• K.J. Parker - Message in a Bottle
• Kuzhali Manickavel - How We Remember You
• Maria Dahvana Headley - Black Powder
• Monica Byrne - Authenticity
• Nada Adel Sobhi - Time is a Teacher
• Neil Gaiman - Somewhere in America
• Nnedi Okorafor - History
• Saad Hossein - Bring Your Own Spoon
• Sami Shah - REAP
• Sophia Al-Maria - The Righteous Guide of Arabsat
• Usman Malik - Emperors of Jinn

The bold new anthology from the acclaimed editors of The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories.

We live our lives in the daylight. Our stories take place under the sun: bright, clear, unafraid.

This is not a book of those stories.

These are the stories of people who live at night; under neon and starlight, and never the light of day.

These are the stories of poets and police; writers and waiters; gamers and goddesses; tourists and traders; the hidden and the forbidden; the lonely and the lovers.

These are their lives. These are their stories. And this is their time:

The Outcast Hours.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin
• "This Book Will Find You" by Sam Beckbessinger, Lauren Beukes and 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? 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" by 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
• And also including 9 microstories by China Miéville

Now firmly established as the benchmark anthology series of international speculative fiction, volume 4 of The Apex Book of World SF sees debut editor Mahvesh Murad bring fresh new eyes to her selection of stories.

From Spanish steampunk and Italian horror to Nigerian science fiction and subverted Japanese folktales, from love in the time of drones to teenagers at the end of the world, the stories in this volume showcase the best of contemporary speculative fiction, wherever it's written.

Featuring:

• Kuzhali Manickavel -- Six Thing We Found During The Autopsy
• Yukimi Ogawa -- In Her Head, In Her Eyes
• Rocío Rincón Fernández -- The Lady of the Soler Colony (Translated from Spanish by James & Marian Womack.)
• Chinelo Onwualu -- The Gift of Touch
• Deepak Unnikrishnan -- Sarama
• Elana Gomel -- The Farm
• Saad Z. Hossain -- Djinns Live by the Sea
• Haralambi Markov -- The Language of Knives
• Nene Ormes -- The Good Matter (Translated from Swedish by Lisa J Isaksson and Nene Ormes.)
• Samuel Marolla -- Black Tea (Translated from Italian by Andrew Tanzi.)
• Prathibha Nadeeshani Dissanayake -- Jinki & the Paradox
• Sese Yane -- The Corpse
• Dilman Dila -- How My Father a Became God
• Isabel Yap -- A Cup of Salt Tears
• Swabir Silayi -- Colour Me Grey
• Sabrina Huang -- Setting Up Home (Translated from Chinese by Jeremy Tiang.)
• Vajra Chandrasekera -- Pockets Full of Stones
• Zen Cho -- The Four Generations of Chang E
• Tang Fei -- Pepe (Translated from Chinese by John Chu.)
• Julie Novakova -- The Symphony of Ice and Dust
• JY Yang -- Tiger Baby (c) 2013. First published in In The Belly of the Cat
• Natalia Theodoridou -- The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul
• Thomas Olde Heuvelt -- The Boy Who Cast No Shadow (Translated from Dutch by Laura Vroomen.)
• Shimon Adaf -- Like A Coin Entrusted in Faith (Translated from Hebrew by the Author.)
• Usman T. Malik -- The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family
• Johann Thorsson -- First, Bite Just a Finger
• Bernardo Fernández -- The Last Hours of The Final Days (Translated from the Spanish by author.)
• Celeste Rita Baker -- Single Entry