Jaym Gates has announced the Table of Contents for her upcoming anthology Genius Loci—and I’m on it!

There are a bunch of very happy people out there today. And their names and story titles are …

Santa Cruz–Andy Duncan
And the Trees Were Happy—Scott Edelman
Blackthorn—B. Morris Allen
Ouroboros in Orbit—Jason Batt
Reef—Kathleen Miller
Scab Land—Wendy Wagner
The Forgetting Field—Caroline Ratajski
The Town the Forest Ate—Haralambi Markov
Imperator Noster—Sonya Taaffe
The Other Shore—Rebecca Campbell
The South China Sea—Z.M. Quynh
Iron Feliks—Anatoly Belilovsky
Forest For the Trees—Steven S. Long
Drowning Again—Ken Scholes and Katie McCord
The Grudge—Thoraiya Dyer
Twilight State—Gemma Files
Coaltown—Heather Clitheroe
In the Water, Underneath—Damien Angelica Walters
Afterparty—Chaz Brenchly
The Gramadevi’s Lament—Sunil Patel
Blue & Grey and Black & Green—Alethea Kontis
Heartbeat—Laura Anne Gilman
Long Way Down—Seanan McGuire
The Snow Train—Ken Liu
The City–Vivienne Pustell
The Crooked Smile Killers—James Lowder
Threadbare Magician—Cat Rambo
Serenity Eternal–Steven Silver
Beer and Pennies—Rich Dansky
The Sleck–Keris MacDonald
The Transplant Specialist–Sarah Goslee

So what’s the theme of Genius Loci? Here’s how Jaym explained it in her original call for submissions:

The theme is the Spirit of Place. Some places just seem alive with their own moods and interests, from foggy coastlines to dark forests, or cheerful meadows. Many cultures have sacred places, often guarded by their own spirits or manifestations, powers in their own right, from volcano gods to dryads and their trees.

Fantasy is full of examples. Think Tolkien’s Old Forest with Tom Bombadil, Barrow Downs, or Fangorn, those places where the land itself seems alive, possibly populated with fae or monstrous creatures. Peter Hamilton’s Great North Road, Gormenghast, Crowley’s Edgewood.

I want stories about those places and their genius loci, but inspired by real-world settings. Creepy forests, forgotten towns; surly deserts and restless oceans; black dogs and swamp monsters; spirits and voices in the wind. Mingle fantasy and horror in real-world settings, from the Australian outback to American ghost towns. Places that have personally inspired or terrified you are even better.

Let the land and its spirits speak.

For updates on the anthology, go ahead and “like” the book’s Facebook page, or simply keep checking back here, because you know I won’t be able to stop talking about it.

For those keeping track at home, this means that of the three stories I’ve completed so far in 2014, I’ve already sold two. Not too shabby!