The Bone Key

THE DEAD AND THE MONSTROUS will not leave Kyle Murchison Booth alone. An unwilling foray into necromancy makes him sensitive—and attractive—to the creatures who roam the darkness of his once-safe world. Ghosts, ghouls, incubi: all have one thing in common. They know Booth for one of their own. These ten stories draw Booth from the safety of his work as a museum archivist into the darkness both of the supernatural and of the human psyche, where he will find answers to mysteries unsolved for decades and learn truths about himself he would rather never have known. CONTENTS Introduction by Sarah Monette 1. Bringing Helena Back • (2004) • short story 2. The Venebretti Necklace • (2004) • novelette 3. The Bone Key • (2007) • short story 4. Wait for Me • (2004) • short story 5. Drowning Palmer • (2006) • novelette 6. The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox • (2004) • short story 7. Elegy for a Demon Lover • (2005) • short story 8. The Wall of Clouds • (2003) • novella 9. The Green Glass Paperweight • (2004) • short story 10. Listening to Bone • short story