These are the stories of people who live at night: under neon and starlight, and never the light of the sun.These are the stories of poets and police, tourists and traders; the hidden and the forbidden; the lonely and the lovers.This is their time.The Outcast Hours gathers over two dozen brand-new stories from award-winning writers across genres and continents, including bold new fiction from Marina Warner, Frances Hardinge, China Miéville, Sami Shah, Omar Robert Hamilton, Kuzhali Manickavel, Will Hill, Indrapramit Das, Silvia Moreno Garcia, Jeffrey Alan Love, Maha Khan Phillips, and many, many more.