Every morning, psychologist Dr. Brian Manifold wakes up to a catatonic wife and the memory of an accident he'd rather forget. In order to escape the frequent panic attacks, delusions, and recurring dreams of a hideous beast, he embraces an aberrant behavior that makes coping with reality easier to handle. But when the hospital administrator worries that Brian may be a danger to his patients and to himself and orders him to see a therapist, there's no way for him to escape the horror that the truth reveals.
Af John Crowley, George R.R. Martin, Kate Elliott, Gardner Dozois, Bruce Mann, Tim Powers, Elizabeth Bear, K. J. Parker, Megan Lindholm, Liz Williams, Scott Lynch, Tonya Cornelisse