Kathy Lette

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For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing—to go home. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, going back to Cardassia has been Garak's one dream. Now, finally, he is home. But home is a world whose landscape is filled with death and destruction. Desperation and dust are constant companions and luxury is a glass of clean water and a warm place to sleep. Ironically, it is a letter from one of the aliens on that space station, Dr. Julian Bashir, that inspires Garak to look at the fabric of his life. Elim Garak has been a student, a gardener, a spy, an exile, a tailor, even a liberator. It is a life that was charted by the forces of Cardassian society with very little understanding of the person, and even less compassion. But it is the tailor that understands who Elim Garak was, and what he could be. It is the tailor who sees the ruined fabric of Cardassia, and who knows how to bring this ravaged society back together. This is strange, because a tailor is the one thing Garak never wanted to be. But it is the tailor whom both Cardassia and Elim Garak need. It is the tailor who can put the pieces together, who can take a stitch in time.

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Contents: • Introduction (Girls' Night Out: Twenty-Nine Female Vampire Stories) • (1997) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz 1 • The Insufficient Answer • (1951) • novelette by Robert Aickman 46 • Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • shortstory by E. F. Benson 60 • The Scent of Vinegar • (1994) • novelette by Robert Bloch 88 • Good Lady Ducayne • (1896) • novelette by Mary Elizabeth Braddon 114 • Sometimes Salvation • (1995) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan 131 • The Brotherhood of Blood • (1932) • novelette by Hugh B. Cave 152 • A Mystery of the Campagna • (1886) • novelette by Anne Crawford 183 • For the Blood Is the Life • (1905) • shortstory by F. Marion Crawford 198 • I Vant to Be Alone • (1995) • shortstory by Barbara D'Amato [as by Barb D'Amato ] 205 • Nellie Foster • (1933) • shortstory by August Derleth 211 • Madeleine • (1995) • shortstory by Barbara Hambly 228 • Ken's Mystery • (1883) • novelette by Julian Hawthorne 249 • Revelations in Black • (1933) • novelette by Carl Jacobi 271 • The First Time • (1990) • shortstory by K. W. Jeter 285 • Girl's Night Out • (1995) • shortstory by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg 300 • Night Laughter • (1986) • shortstory by Ellen Kushner 304 • La Dame • (1995) • shortstory by Tanith Lee 316 • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes • (1949) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber 331 • Dress of White Silk • (1951) • shortstory by Richard Matheson 336 • Shambleau • [Northwest Smith] • (1933) • novelette by C. L. Moore 365 • My Dear Emily • (1962) • shortstory by Joanna Russ 387 • American Gothic • (1987) • shortstory by Ray Russell 402 • The Pearls of the Vampire Queen • [Nifft] • (1977) • novelette by Michael Shea 436 • The End of the Story • [Averoigne] • (1930) • novelette by Clark Ashton Smith 453 • The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady • (1988) • novelette by Brian Stableford 475 • The Last Grave of Lill Warren • [John Thunstone] • (1951) • novelette by Manly Wade Wellman 496 • Luella Miller • (1902) • shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman ] 509 • ...To Feel Another's Woe • (1989) • shortstory by Chet Williamson 523 • The Canal • (1927) • shortstory by Everil Worrell