The Wild Hunt

 The Wild Hunt occurs in European folklore and typically involves a ghostly or supernatural group of hunters passing in wild pursuit. The hunters may be elves, or fairies, or the dead, and the leader of the hunt is often a named figure associated with Odin, but may variously be a historical, legendary, or biblical figure, or an unidentified lost soul or spirit either male or female.

Seeing the Wild Hunt was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague, or, at best, the death of the one who witnessed it. People encountering the Hunt might also be abducted to the underworld or the fairy kingdom. In some instances, it was also believed that people’s spirits could be pulled away during their sleep to join the cavalcade.

Collected here are all new stories of the Wild Hunt incorporating its diverse mythology and drama.

The Wild Hunt features stories by: Angeline B. Adams and Remco van Straten, asch, Alicia Cay, Graeme Davis, Claire Davon, Buzz Dixon, Paula Hammond, Elliot Harper, John P. Kenny, Jamie Lackey, Evergreen Lee, Hailey Piper, Jan Rivers, Maria Schrater, Allyson Shaw, Christine Aikens Wolfe.