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

In your hands is a 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.

Table of Contents

This Is the Map, Let's Get Lost (Introduction) - Linda D. Addison

Girlboss in Wonderworld, USA - Vivian Chou

Blood in Coldwater - Danian Darrell Jerry

This Side of the Living - VH Ncube

Hulderhola - Oliver Ferrie

Silverheels - Rebecca E. Treasure

The Salt - Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yaniv

Three Ways to Break You - Beth Dawkins

Place of Lost Stories - Rich Larson

All Praise the Durians - Joshua Lim

A Realm Alive After Dusk - Ai Jiang

Salt - K.S. Walker

When I Cowboy in Puuwaawaa - Ferdison Cayetano

Development/Hell - Samit Basu

The (Lost) Tribe of Ishmael - Maurice Broaddus

Inviting the Hollow Bones - Octavia Cade

Chuckle Wet, Chuckle Low - R.L. Meza

Codewalker - G.M. Paniccia

In Nobody's Debt - Jenny Rowe

The Death of Black Fatima - Muhammed Awal Ahmed

Notes Towards a History of LeHorn's Hollow - Brian Keene

The Promised Void - Dimitra Nikolaidou

You Have Eaten of Our Salt - Fatima Taqvi