Magazine, 1997) "From the Discourses and Edifications of Liw Osfeo"* (Excerpt and variant of the Liw Osfeo sections from Fools Errant, original to the limited edition of The Gist Hunter and Other Stories, August 2005) "So Loved" (First published in The New and Perfect Man: Postscripts 24/25, March 2011) "Ant Lion" (Original to this collection, to be reprinted in Trees, 2022) Mixed Bag (2022) "The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable"* (First published in The Book of Magic, October 2018) "The Gift of Gabby" (First published in Welcome to Pacific City, December 2018) "Thunderstone"* (First published in Extrasolar, August 2017) "Mean Mr. Mustard" (First published in Storyteller, Winter 2003) "Loser" (First published in Welcome to Dystopia, December 2017) "Greeves and the Evening Star" (First published in Old Venus, March 2015) "The Prevaricator"* (First published in F&SF, July–August 2018) "Hapthorn’s Last Case"* (First published in Lightspeed Magazine, November 2018) "The Bicolour Spiral"* (First published in Pulp Literature, April 2020) "Arboghasz Dal Axander Rides Again"* (First published in Mixed Bag, July 2022) "Awakening" (Original to this collection) Crime novels (as by Matt Hughes) Paroxysm (2013) One More Kill (2018) Sid Rafferty Downshift (1997) Old Growth (2013) Crime short fiction "Fishface and the Leg" (First published in Western Producer Magazine (1983); reprinted in Storyteller (1998) and Pulp Literature, January 2017) "Something to Sell" (First published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, July 1998) "Number Crunch" (First published in Blue Murder Magazine, 1999) "One More Kill" (First published in Blue Murder Magazine, 1999; reprinted in Storyteller (2001), Alibis 9 (2004), Son and Foe (2006), Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story winner, 1999) "Stepping Stones" (First published in Blue Murder Magazine, 2000) "Wipe Out" (First published in Blue Murder Magazine, 2000; reprinted in Iced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction (2001)) "Mean Mr. Mustard" (First published in Storyteller, Winter 2003) "Muscle" (First published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, September 2004) Tie-in fiction (as by Hugh Matthews) Wolverine: Lifeblood (2007, reprinted in the Weapon X omnibus, 2020) Pathfinder Tales Web Fiction: "Krunzle the Quick" (2012) Pathfinder Tales: Song of the Serpent (2012) Nonfiction (Ghostwritten) Breaking Trail: The Memoirs of Senator Leonard Marchand (2000) What's All This Got To Do With The Price of 2x4s? (2006) References External links Official Site of Matt Hughes Matthew Hughes Patreon page Full Bibliography Facebook author page Twitter profile (@hapthorn) Night Shade Books, publisher of "The Tales of Henghis