Introduction by Wayne Edwards

Keepsake by Gemma Files
Spring Ahead, Fall Back by Michael A. Arnzen
I Hug the Snow to My Chest by Sue Storm
Andrew by Steve Rasnic Tem
So Natural by Lorin Emery
Resting Places by Charlee Jacob
Ichneumon by Ron Dionne
Stonework by Amy Hembree
The Lady Rests by Joe Hill
A Natural Death by Lenora K. Rogers
The Nerve by Cindie Geddes
All Their Own by Sean Doolittle
Undercurrents by Elizabeth Engstrom
Confession by Brian Hodge
Deadipus Rex by Bentley Little
A Safe Place to Die by Lucy Taylor
Names, A Love Story by Andrea J. Horlick
The Horn's Last Rite
by D.F. Lewis and M.B. Simon
The Giver by Mark Rich
We Crawl Stylish:
The American Dream Vs. The Derby Geeks
by Wayne Allen Sallee
The Dog Syndrome by Tom Piccirilli
The Piano Player Has No Fingers
by Mark McLaughlin
Divine Intervention by John Marshall
Lightning Man by by Steve Proposch
Posession by Frank Hart
Seastruck by Yvonne Navarro
Coldest Touch by R.L. Levesque and B.J. Boucher
Let Me Tell You a Story
by Gerard Daniel Houarner

The Ghosts upon Our Battlement
author biographies

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The question about the anthology I am most often asked is, "What does it mean, 'Palace Corbie'?" The answer tends to disappoint people. In fact, it comes from a line in an obscure rubai that reads, "feeding the corbie of the palace." I thought the words sounded good together. Palace Corbie. That is the origin of the title, but what does it mean?

I think of it literally: a palace. Dark? Of course, and mysterious, filled with hidden avenues and chambers that hold sinister secrets. All you have to do is walk the corridors, test the walls for place and resilience, melt into the tapestries and experience the amazing. Search for the fountain at the center of the labyrinth of human experience where everything worth knowing is yours for the taking. There are elements of horror and sometimes fantasy, but mainly you will be witness to people thrown into extreme situations and bizarre circumstances. How they deal with their dilemmas in the story.

Palace Corbie began as a magazine, but it quickly transformed into an anthology. Over the years, this annual collection has grown in size and strength, but its distribution has been severely limited. Now, for the first time, the wonders and secrets of the palace are available to everyone.

Come to the palace and drink from the fountain of fear and deliverance.

—Wayne Edwards

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"I think of it literally: a palace. Dark? Of course, and mysterious, filled with hidden avenues and chambers that hold sinister secrets. All you have to do is walk the corridors, test the walls for place and resilience, melt into the tapestries and experience the amazing. Search for the fountain at the center of the labyrinth of human experience where everything worth knowing is yours for the taking. There are elements of horror and sometimes fantasy, but mainly you will be witness to people thrown into extreme situations and bizarre circumstances"

—from the introduction

Wayne Edwards grew up in Indiana, but now lives in Nebraska. There is not much difference between these two places. Both require artificial stimulation if you expect to survive. This necessarily explains his interest in reading and writing as a defense against boredom and, ultimately, insanity. It is as good an explanation as any. In addition to editing Palace Corbie through eight volumes, Wayne Edwards has also written numerous short stories, hundreds of poems, bits of literary criticism and other minutiae, and two novels (with John Marshall).