Editor Ellen Datlow has announced that “Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy is (pretty much) done.” The table of contents (below) is in order, but she’ll be adding one more story to the line-up, somewhere in that list. St. Martin’s is scheduled to publish the book in Spring 2010.
Datlow says of the book: “It’s a very mixed bag covering cities from Berlin to New York to Mexico City (and some imaginary ones) and it’s got ghoul lovers, city destroyers, a story featuring the Seattle troll, and the real reason for the curse on the Chicago Cubs!”
Contents:
“Curses” by Jim Butcher
“How the Pooka Came to New York City” by Delia Sherman
“On the Slide” by Richard Bowes
“The Duke of Riverside” by Ellen Kushner
“Oblivion by Calvin Klein” by Christopher Fowler
“Picking up the Pieces” by Pat Cadigan
“Underbridge” by Peter S. Beagle
“Priced to Sell” by Naomi Novik
“The Bricks of Gelecek” by Matthew Kressel
“Weston Walks” by Kit Reed
“The Projected Girl” by Lavie Tidhar
“The Way Station” by Nathan Ballingrud
“And Go Like This” by John Crowley
“Noble Rot” by Holly Black
“Daddy Long Legs of the Evening” by Jeffrey Ford
“The Skinny Girl” by Lucius Shepard
“The Colliers’ Venus” by Caitlín R. Kiernan
“King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree” by Elizabeth Bear
Edited 23 February 2009: Datlow reports that she has turned in the final manuscript to Monique Patterson at St. Martin’s Press for publication in Spring 2010.