From the Foreword: I wrote my first stories over 25 years ago on a Kaypro 4 - a squat, 23-pound beast of a computer that ranked among the most popular PCs of the early 80s. I must have been in first or second grade, which explains but doesn't quite excuse my habit at the time of writing in all caps. While the material itself is gone, the feeling - an almost conspiratorial sense that I was getting away with something - has never quite faded. And now, with no fewer than seven contributors making this anthology possible, I think I've finally found my conspiracy. New worlds have a nasty habit of vanishing without scaffolding and support, after all. Score one for the enemies of entropy The Mirrored Hall runs the gamut from urban fantasy and science fiction to horror and satire, and I couldn't be more proud of what we've accomplished. Here's to many more. Editor and Contributor Ian Morgenheim