Octavia Cade

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

Sometimes change can hurt. This collection of short stories traces the growing pains of a new world, beginning with the death throes of our current way of life and ending with a world transformed by science and technology, and by grief, hope, love, and humanity's will to transform. This is a collection that will both tear you apart and tend to your wounds. Cade's beautifully wrought stories are informed by science, tracing the biological and emotional threads that bind us, human and non-human alike. Containing a brand new novelette in the Impossible Resurrection of Grief universe, You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories is a promise of what worlds are possible if we allow ourselves to change.