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stage, rather than going about their lives in the background of the books as they usually do.


Considering the origins of Spirits in the Wires, I should first thank Richard for those
conversations, not forgetting his wife, Mardelle, who is not only a friend, but who has also
done such a fine job of copyediting on a number of my books—those would be the ones

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without typos and the like.
I’d also like to thank:
Rodger Turner for great heaps of technical advice (with the usual caveat that any screw-ups
are my fault, not his);
my coterie of friends, family and well-wishers (too numerous to name—you know who you
are), without whom writing these books would be a far lonelier proposition;
my editors Gordon Van Gelder, Jo Fletcher, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Sharyn November,
and Terri Windling, all of whom are friends more than business associates;
Cat Eldridge, David Tamulevich, and the handful of readers who continue to send such
wonderful music my way, as well as all the amazing musicians who, through the years, have
kept my brain fertile and my spirits lifted with their music;
and last, but never least, Mary Ann for her love, comfort, and support; for the music in her
heart and the poetry in her soul; for her astute reader’s eye and red pen, and her sharp
negotiating skills. And you know what? She’s wilder than me.


If any of you are on the Internet, come visit my home page at www.charlesdelint.com


—Charles de Lint
Ottawa, Autumn 2002




Extract from the journals of
Christy Riddell
According to Jung, at around the age of six or seven we separate and then hide away the parts of ourselves
that don’t seem acceptable, that don’t fit in the world around us. Those unacceptable parts that we secret
away become our shadows.
I remember reading somewhere that it can be a useful exercise to visualize the person our shadow would be if
it could step out into the light. So I tried it. It didn’t work immediately. For a long time, I was simply
talking to myself. Then, when I did get a response, it was only a spirit voice I heard in my head. It could just
as easily have been my own. But over time, my shadow took on more physical attributes, in the way that a

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