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For this seventh installment of the Creepsville Collection, we present four tales straight out of the Uncanny Valley: "Differently Wired": She built and programmed her ideal lover, but what will she do after she meets somebody new? How do you dump somebody who, quite literally, exists solely for you? "Rusty Bolts": Okay, so Jim Riustenholtz is a robot. Big deal. He's still part of the gang, and not that different from anybody else. Right? Right? "Continue Program?": Why live in the real world when the virtual one is so much less hassle and so much more fun?

After dropping my brain off at the shop for a tune-up, I got a loaner brain. Who would've suspected the fiasco that followed?

For some people, Hell is always just down the street and around the corner.

In this lighthearted, sci-fi homage to the late, great, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertram Wooster stumbles upon his own, deceased doppelganger. Jeeves, upon being asked his assessment of the situation, remarks upon the body's "most unfortunate" choice of attire.

The Althusians traveled vast distances to reach Earth. Unfortunately, hyperspace travel stripped away their memories, so they arrived deranged and confused. After a period of intense study and rehabilitation, these aliens were freed to live among humans. All seemed well, until they developed a peculiar talent for time travel.

There is something seriously wrong with Santa this year, and he's coming for you. Santa Claus ruined his life. He saw him as a child, flying across the sky in his reindeer-pulled sleigh, and this vision grew into a long-time obsession. He eventually learned the truth about Santa. The dark, horrifying truth.

When the aliens came, it was like nothing anybody expected....

The alligator had a good life, but his neighbor was a little a**hole. His neighbor just happened to be a squirrel. Not all squirrels are a**holes, but this one was. What was the poor alligator to do? He did what anybody would do: went into his garage and built a 60mm machine-gun, a flamethrower, and a grenade launcher, with which to deal with the problem. Then, suddenly, things got crazy.

Here at Gordon's Pub and Grill, we get all kinds. My policy is that everybody is welcome and should be treated as a friend when they step foot inside my establishment. That policy never changed even when Death himself paid a visit.

Despite her amazing abilities, all Sun Song Shia ever wanted was to be loved. But it's hard to find love when you don't even know who you really are. Little Bird is an expansion of In Her Eyes, originally published in F&SF, a nominee for the Sturgeon award, an honoree for the James Tiptree award, and included in the 2015 Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas (edited by Paula Guran).

In this novelette, prisoners are used as lab rats in a ruthless series of temporal experiments. Physicists learn that it's possible to pillage and plunder the past without affecting the present, or so it seems. It seems as though there are no consequences to time travel. But one prisoner sees the fallacy of this, because nobody understands consequences like a con.

In this tale, the afterlife realms have come to Earth. Casey loved her grandfather, but shortly before he died, she learned about his sordid past. Therefore, it came as no surprise when he ended up in Detroit. It takes courage, not to mention lots of paperwork (because Hell teems with bureaucracy), but she visits her beloved grandfather. She not only learns more about him, but about herself as well.

The uprising of machine consciousness is beautifully terrifying and arouses frightening questions. To what desperate lengths will an android go to fit in? How will we cope with boredom after the machines solve all our problems? Can a robot go insane? Is Artificial Intelligence an existential threat? Are thinking machines our friends? Our enemies? Or both?

In the late Jurassic Period, an Allosaurus lives, thrives, and rules. One hundred and fifty million years later, in a bizarre twist of fate, Dylan Armitage's life becomes entwined with this ancient predator. Over the years, this carnivore grows ever stronger, faster, and fiercer. She is a monster and she is coming for Dylan and his family. Dylan's father always said, "There are different kinds of men in this world." Turns out, there are also different kinds of monsters. The question that haunts Dylan is, what kind of monster must he become to protect everyone he loves?

From the moment she hatched, First was curious, determined, and fierce. A baby allosaurus is nothing but a tasty morsel for numerous predators, and yet something deep within her knew that she had come into this world world to rule. This is the life story of a singularly dynamic predator of the late Jurassic period. Using her mix of cunning and patience, First makes her way in a harsh and unforgiving land, even finding the occasional moment of joy along the way.

During a riotous, full-moon drum ceremony, Larry fell through a vortex and slipped into the sinister universe next door. It looked like his planet...except humans co existed with silent, brooding creatures known as troglodytes. The trogs seem harmless enough, and even benevolent, but Larry soon learns that they have a peculiar, sinister hold on humanity. Terrified, he realizes that there is no place in this world for him, and yet escape seems all but impossible.

Strange and powerful forces lurk in the Blood Swamp. Some with enough allure as to call a man back from the dead, over and over.

When Lynn feels like a cat, she becomes a cat. It really is the best way to forget about her ugly past. Just curl up in a patch of sunlight and sleep. But when the sun sets, she must cat about. It's a restless night and the monsters have come out to play. Monsters Lynn cannot ignore. What must she become to defeat them? And does she have what it takes?

What if you could prove that Santa Claus was real? And what if Old Saint Nick's reaction to this was, well, less than jolly?

Something wicked is cooking in Dot's Diner. The chef is swearing, prices are rising, customers are pounding the tables, and Dot is raking in the cash. Come in and take a seat, you will not be disappointed. Written by Seth Chambers. Narration and sound design by Noah DeBiase.