Preface: Grim reader -- Ghost anecdote / Laura Kasischke -- Not even lions and tigers / Steve Amick -- Thin air / Elizabeth Kostova -- Backseat driver / James Hynes -- Pier Road / Nicholas Delbanco -- Bones on Bois Blanc / Laura Hulthen Thomas -- Bitchathane / Anne-Marie Oomen -- Estate sale / Kelly Fordon -- Making bakes / Lolita Hernandez -- The devil in Cross Village / Eileen Pollack -- The man at the edge / Keith Taylor -- Belief / Elizabeth Schmuhl.