Patricia A. McKillip Books In Order

Cygnet Duology Books In Publication Order

  1. The Sorceress and the Cygnet (1990)
  2. The Cygnet and the Firebird (1993)

Kyreol Duology Books In Publication Order

  1. Moon-Flash (1984)
  2. The Moon and the Face (1985)

Riddle-Master Books In Publication Order

  1. The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976)
  2. Heir of Sea and Fire (1977)
  3. Harpist in the Wind (1979)

Winter Rose Books In Publication Order

  1. Winter Rose (1996)
  2. Solstice Wood (2006)

Brian Froud’s Faerielands Books In Publication Order

  1. The Wild Wood (By:Charles de Lint,Brian Froud) (1994)
  2. Something Rich and Strange (With: Brian Froud) (1994)

MagicQuest Books In Publication Order

  1. The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (1973)
  2. Power of Three (By:Diana Wynne Jones) (1976)
  3. Tulku (By:Peter Dickinson) (1979)
  4. The Magicians of Caprona (By:Diana Wynne Jones) (1980)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The House on Parchment Street (1973)
  2. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)
  3. The Night Gift (1976)
  4. Stepping from the Shadows (1982)
  5. Fool’s Run (1987)
  6. The Changeling Sea (1988)
  7. The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995)
  8. Song for the Basilisk (1998)
  9. The Tower at Stony Wood (2000)
  10. Ombria in Shadow (2002)
  11. In the Forests of Serre (2003)
  12. Alphabet of Thorn (2004)
  13. Od Magic (2005)
  14. Wonders of the Invisible World (2007)
  15. The Bell at Sealey Head (2008)
  16. The Bards of Bone Plain (2010)
  17. Kingfisher (2016)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Harrowing the Dragon (2005)
  2. Dreams of Distant Shores (2016)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Karkadann Triangle (With: ) (2018)

The Diogenes Club Books In Publication Order

  1. White of the Moon (By:Stephen Jones) (1999)
  2. Where The Bodies Are Buried (By:Kim Newman) (2000)
  3. Infinity Plus One (By:Keith Brooke) (2001)
  4. Embrace the Mutation (By:William Schafer) (2002)
  5. Best New Horror 14 (By:Stephen Jones) (2003)
  6. Adventure (By:Chris Roberson) (2005)
  7. Best New Horror 18 (By:Stephen Jones) (2007)
  8. Best New Horror 19 (By:Stephen Jones) (2007)
  9. Summer Chills (By:Stephen Jones) (2007)
  10. Infinity Plus (By:Keith Brooke) (2007)
  11. The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman) (2007)
  12. The Fair Folk (By:Marvin Kaye) (2008)
  13. The Fair Folk (With: Megan Lindholm,Tanith Lee,Jane Yolen,Marvin Kaye,Kim Newman,Craig Shaw Gardner) (2008)
  14. Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy (By:Ellen Datlow) (2010)
  15. Mysteries of the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman) (2010)
  16. Best New Horror 16 (By:Stephen Jones) (2012)
  17. The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (By:) (2015)
  18. The Mammoth Book of the Mummy (By:) (2015)
  19. The Man from the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman) (2017)

Snow White, Blood Red Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. Snow White, Blood Red (1993)
  2. Black Thorn, White Rose (1994)
  3. Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995)
  4. Black Swan, White Raven (1997)
  5. Silver Birch, Blood Moon (1999)
  6. Black Heart, Ivory Bones (2000)

The Mythic Fiction Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2002)
  2. The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm (2004)
  3. The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People (2009)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. After the King (1991)
  2. To Weave a Web of Magic (2004)
  3. The Fair Folk (2008)

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Patricia A. McKillip Books Overview

Moon-Flash

Kyreol’s small world begins at the Face, a high rock cliff, and ends at Fourteen Falls, a series of rapids. Each year, her people celebrate Moon Flash a spark of light that seems to come from and go into the moon, a symbol of life and joy. When a mysterious stranger arrives, Kyreol wants to know more about him, as well as the Moon Flash, and soon she and her childhood friend Terje leave their home to look for answers. Those answers will pluck Kyreol from Riverworld and transform her life forever by fast forwarding her into a future she can barely comprehend. This omnibus edition combines the acclaimed Patricia A. McKillip’s two science fiction novels, Moon Flash and The Moon and the Face at the request of Firebird readers.

The Moon and the Face

Kyreol’s mission to another planet and Terje’s trip to observe their old river home both meet with unexpected dangers and an eventual melding of very different cultures.

The Riddle-Master of Hed

Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of Hed, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life to win a crown from the dead Lord of Aum. But now ancient, evil forces were threatening him. Shape changers began replacing friends until no man could be trusted. So Morgon was forced to flee to hostile kingdoms, seeking the High One who ruled from mysterious Erlenstar Mountain. Beside him went Deth, the High One’s Harper. Ahead lay strange encounters and terrifying adventures. And with him always was the greatest of unsolved riddles the nature of the three stars on his forehead that seemed to drive him toward his ultimate destiny.

Heir of Sea and Fire

By the vow of her father and her own desire, Raederle was pledged to Morgon, Riddle Master of Hed. But a year had passed since Morgon disappeared on his search for the High One at Erlenstar Mountain, and rumors claimed he was dead. Raederle set out to learn the truth for herself, though her small gift of magic seemed too slight for the perils she must face. The quest led through strange lands and dangerous adventures. Only her growing powers enabled her at last to reach Erlenstar Mountain. And there she discovered what she could not bear to accept. Accompanied by Deth, the High One’s Harper, she fled. And behind them came a pursuer whose name was Morgon, bent on executing a grim destiny upon Raederle and Deth. Her only hope lay in summoning the Hosts of the Dead, led by the King whose skull she bore…

Harpist in the Wind

In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.

Winter Rose

When Corbet Lynn returns home to rebuild his family’s estate, his grandfather’s curse is rekindled and lures a free spirited woman from the woods that border Lynn Hall. ‘Weaves a dense web of desire and longing, human love and inhuman need.’ Publishers Weekly ‘The prose is impeccable, the story memorable, and the characters admirable.’ Science Fiction Chronicle

Solstice Wood

No stranger to the realms of myth and magic, World Fantasy Award winning author Patricia A. McKillip presents her first contemporary fantasy in years. Solstice Wood is a tale of the tangled lives we mere mortals lead, when we turn our eyes from the beauty and mystery that lie just outside of the everyday. When her beloved grandfather dies, bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn knows she must finally return to her childhood home in upstate New York and face the grandmother who raised her and the woods which so beguiled and frightened her. But it’s not until she meets the Fiber Guild a group of local women who meet to knit, embroider, and sew that Sylvia learns why her grandmother watches her so. A primitive power exists in the forest, a force the Fiber Guild seeks to bind in its stitches and weavings. And Sylvia is no stranger to the woods.

The Wild Wood (By:Charles de Lint,Brian Froud)

A young artist returns to her cabin in the deep woods of Canada to concentrate on her illustrations. But somehow, strange and beau tiful creatures are slipping into her drawings and sketches. The world of Faerie is reaching out to her for help and she may be its last chance for survival.

Something Rich and Strange (With: Brian Froud)

They have lived among us for centuries distant, separate, just out of sight. They fill our myths, our legends, and the stories we tell our children in the dark of night. They come from the air, from water, from earth, and from fire. What are these creatures that enjoin out imagination? Faeries. Something Rich and Strange creates a faerie story that’s not to be missed: Megan is an artist who draws seascapes. Jonah owns a shop devoted to treasures from the deep. Their lives, so strongly touched by the ocean, become forever intertwined when enchanting people of the sea lure them further into the underwater world and away from each other.

The Throme of the Erril of Sherill

A knight goes in quest of the non existent throme of the Erril of Sherill since the king will not allow his daughter to marry without it.

Power of Three (By:Diana Wynne Jones)

Though the Moor is enchantingly beautiful, it holds great perils for the people who inhabit it. Powerful Giants, with extraordinary magical machines, clumsily roam the land, while silent Dorig, who possess devious shape shifting abilities, terrify anyone unlucky enough to happen upon them. The leader of Garholt has three children who know well the precautions that must be taken to avoid Giants and Dorig. Armed with their unique psychic Gifts, two of the children have fewer fears than most people who dare to venture into the open. But Gair, the middle child, is convinced that he has no Gift and is ordinary. He knows only that he must escape the constant taunting and bullying of his cruel cousin Ondo, and he is willing to risk confronting even Giants and Dorig in order to do so. This eerily captivating tale, told with logic and total credibility by the masterful Diana Wynne Jones, will hold readers spellbound until the very last of the many secrets of this semi mythical world are revealed.

Tulku (By:Peter Dickinson)

When his father’s Mission is destroyed and his father killed, thirteen year old Theodore must flee the Chinese rebels of the Boxer uprising who killed his father and enter Tibet. H.

The Magicians of Caprona (By:Diana Wynne Jones)

In the worlds of Chrestomanci, anything can happen. This adventure takes place in the Italian Dukedom of Caprona, where spells are as slippery and as tricksy as spaghetti! Casa Montana and Casa Petrocchi look after the magical business in the Dukedom of Caprona, watched over by its magnificent guardian statue, the Angel. The families have been feuding for years, so when all the spells start going wrong, each naturally blames the other. Then young Tonino Montana and Angelica Petrocchi disappear. Could the terrible rumours of a White Devil who threatens Caprona be true after all?

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

After the death of her wizard father, sixteen year old Sybel’s only friends are part of a magical menagerie a dragon, black swan, lion, falcon, and boar until a infant child is put into her charge. Winner of the World Fantasy Award. PW. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content Almost destroyed because of a man’s fear and greed, Sybel, a beautiful young sorceress, embarks on a quest for revenge that proves equally destructive. Winner of the World Fantasy award, this exquisitely written story has something for almost every reader: adventure, romance and a resonant mythology that reveals powerful truths about human nature. Locus praised it for its ‘marvelous hero*ine…
and chilling sorcery’ and The New York Times called it ‘rich and regal.’

The Night Gift

As they work to create a beautiful room for the brother of one of them who had attempted suicide, three friends find their lives deeply affected by their project.

The Changeling Sea

Since the day her father’s fishing boat returned without him, Peri and her mother have mourned his loss. Her mother sinks into a deep depression and spends her days gazing out at the sea. Unable to control her anger and sadness any longer, Peri uses the small magic she knows to hex the sea. And suddenly into her drab life come the King’s sons changelings with strange ties to the underwater kingdom a young magician, and, finally, love.

The Book of Atrix Wolfe

Twenty years ago, the powerful mage Atrix Wolfe unleashed an uncontrollable force that killed his beloved king. Now, the Queen of the Wood has offered him one last chance for redemption. She asks him to find her daughter, who vanished into the human world during the massacre he caused. No one has seen the princess but deep in the kitchens of the Castle of Pelucir, there is a scullery maid who appeared out of nowhere one night long ago. She cannot speak and her eyes are full of sadness. But there are those who call her beautiful.

Song for the Basilisk

As a child, Rook had been taken in by the bards of Luly, and raised as one of their own. Of his past he knew nothing except faint memories of fire and death that he’d do anything to forget. But nightmares, and a new threat to the island that had become his own, would not let him escape the dreaded fate of his true family. Haunted by the music of the bards, he left the only home he knew to wander the land of the power hungry basilisk who had destroyed his family. And perhaps, finally, to find a future in the fulfillment of his forgotten destiny.

Ombria in Shadow

Ombria. It is a city that echoes with the footfalls of sapphire heeled shoes…
that holds its breath as a straw haired apparition glides through its streets…
that sees its dreams and nightmares take shape in the drawings of a bast*ard heir. It is an enchanted time and place envisioned by World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip, acclaimed author of The Tower at Stony Wood…

In the Forests of Serre

In the tales of World Fantasy Award winning author Patricia McKillip, nothing is ever as it seems. A mirror is never just a mirror; a forest is never just a forest. Here, it is a place where a witch can hide in her house of bones and a prince can bargain with his heart…
where good and evil entwine and wear each others’ faces…
and where a bird with feathers of fire can quench the fiercest longing…

Alphabet of Thorn

One of the most spectacular fantasists of our time, Patricia A. McKillip creates fairy tale worlds of wonder and magic. Now, she opens the page on a time and place where an orphan girl is haunted by thorns…
a reluctant queen rules between sea and sky…
and epics never end…

Od Magic

Brenden Vetch has a gift that connects him to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. Receiving a personal invitation from the wizard Od to become a gardener for her school in the great city of Kelior, he finds a home among every potential wizard who must be trained to serve the Kingdom of Numis. But unknown to the reigning monarchy is the power possessed by the school’s new gardener a power that even Brenden isn’t fully aware of, and which is the true reason Od recruited him.

The Bell at Sealey Head

An ‘elegant’ Library Journal fantasy from the World Fantasy Award winning author of Solstice Wood Sealey Head is a small town on the edge of the ocean, a sleepy place where everyone hears the ringing of a bell no one can see. On the outskirts of town is the one truly great house, Aislinn House, where the aged Lady Eglantyne lies dying, and where the doors sometimes open not to its own dusty rooms, but to the wild majesty of a castle full of knights and princesses…

The Bards of Bone Plain

The newest novel from the World Fantasy Award winning author of The Bell at Sealey Head. With ‘her exquisite grasp of the fantasist’s craft’ Publishers Weekly Patricia A. McKillip now invites readers to discover a place that may only exist in the mystical wisdom of poetry and music. Scholar Phelan Cle is researching Bone Plain which has been studied for the last 500 years, though no one has been able to locate it as a real place. Archaeologist Jonah Cle, Phelan’s father, is also hunting through time, piecing history together from forgotten trinkets. His most eager disciple is Princess Beatrice, the king’s youngest daughter. When they unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight.

Harrowing the Dragon

A fantasist without equal, Patricia A. McKillip has created worlds of intricate beauty and unforgettably nuanced characters. For 25 years, she’s drawn readers into her spell, spinning modern day fables with a grace rarely seen. Now she presents a book of previously uncollected short stories, full of beautiful dragons, rueful princesses, and handsome bards, and written in the gorgeous and often surprisingly funny prose she’s known for. This is her world, wrapped up in the finery of fairy tales.

Best New Horror 14 (By:Stephen Jones)

The fourteenth volume in this series is going strong, and with another generous sampling of the past year’s best horror fiction, it again earns ‘merits’ from Publishers Weekly. With contributions from such favorites as Ramsey Campbell and Kim Newman, along with the talented likes of Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Graham Joyce, Paul McCauley, Stephen Gallagher, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jay Russell, Glen Hirshberg and many more, the hairraising tales in this edition hold nightmares for travelers in alien lands, unveil the mystery and menace lurking in our everyday reality, explore the terrors of the supernatural, and honor horror s classic tradition. As always, editor Stephen Jones provides an illuminating and engaging overview of the past year in horror fiction, as well as an affecting necrology and a guide to contacts among publishers, organizations, booksellers, and magazines in the eerier fields of fiction.

Adventure (By:Chris Roberson)

ADVENTURE, the first volume of an annual anthology of original fiction in the spirit of early twentieth-century pulp fiction magazines, features stories from all genres, promising both literary sophistication and pulse-pounding action. Contributors to the first volume, among them leading lights and award-winners in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and western, include John Edward Ames, Lou Anders, Neal Asher, Kage Baker, Barry Baldwin, O’Neil De Noux, Paul Di Filippo, Mark Finn, Michael Kurland, John Meaney, Michael Moorcock, Chris Nakashima-Brown, Kim Newman, Mike Resnick, Chris Roberson, Matthew Rossi, and Marc Singer.

Best New Horror 18 (By:Stephen Jones)

Here is the latest edition of the world’s premier annual showcase of horror and dark, fantasy fiction, from a series that has won the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. It features some of the very best short stories and novellas by today’s masters of the macabre including Neil Gaiman, Glen Hirshberg, Tanith Lee, Ramsey Campbell, and Charles Coleman Finlay.

Best New Horror 19 (By:Stephen Jones)

This collection features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations, an impressively researched necrology, and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated reader and budding writer alike. This is the very best of new short stories and novellas by today’s masters of the macabre. Contributors include such names as Neil Gaiman, Gene Wolfe, Brian Keene, Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Elizabeth Massie, Glen Hirshberg, Peter Atkins, and Tanith Lee. This is required reading for any fan of ghoulish fiction.

Summer Chills (By:Stephen Jones)

A collection of horror stories in exotic locale by the likes of Dennis Etchinson, Graham Masterton, Brian Lumley, and Christopher Fowler.

The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman)

From the 1860s to the present, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain’s police, protecting the realm and this entire plane of existence from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones. Kim Newman continues the series began in The Man From the Diogenes Club, revealing more of the secrets of the British Empire’s most secret service.

The Fair Folk (By:Marvin Kaye)

Six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy all with one commonthreat ‘the fair folk.’ From blithe fairies to sinister fey, some are fair, some are foul, all are fantastic. In ‘The Kelpie,’ by Patricia A. McKillip, a carefree circle of bohemian artists is confronted by a being more powerful than any muse. Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder weave a tale of two sisters long exiled from their magical realm who must survive in ours, in ‘Except the Queen.’ In Tanith Lee’s ‘UOUS,’ a young woman with a rotten family is granted three wishes by a handsome elf and learns that nothing good comes free of charge. A hapless slob finds his world turned upside down when an eager brownie moves in and proceeds to clean house, in Megan Lindholm’s ‘Grace Notes.’ Kim Newman introduces an intrepid government investigator whose latest case pits him against a sinister brood of fairy folk known as ‘The Gypsies in the Wood.’ And the serenity of the Elves is tested in a wry fable of a long suffering magical apprentice who can’t catch a break, in Craig Shaw Gardner’s ‘The Embarrassment of Elves.

The Fair Folk (With: Megan Lindholm,Tanith Lee,Jane Yolen,Marvin Kaye,Kim Newman,Craig Shaw Gardner)

Six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy all with one commonthreat ‘the fair folk.’ From blithe fairies to sinister fey, some are fair, some are foul, all are fantastic. In ‘The Kelpie,’ by Patricia A. McKillip, a carefree circle of bohemian artists is confronted by a being more powerful than any muse. Jane Yolen and Midori Snyder weave a tale of two sisters long exiled from their magical realm who must survive in ours, in ‘Except the Queen.’ In Tanith Lee’s ‘UOUS,’ a young woman with a rotten family is granted three wishes by a handsome elf and learns that nothing good comes free of charge. A hapless slob finds his world turned upside down when an eager brownie moves in and proceeds to clean house, in Megan Lindholm’s ‘Grace Notes.’ Kim Newman introduces an intrepid government investigator whose latest case pits him against a sinister brood of fairy folk known as ‘The Gypsies in the Wood.’ And the serenity of the Elves is tested in a wry fable of a long suffering magical apprentice who can’t catch a break, in Craig Shaw Gardner’s ‘The Embarrassment of Elves.

Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy (By:Ellen Datlow)

A girl who eats dreams, a woman who chooses the apes, and a barbarian hero rendered as a collage. These are just a few of the people readers first met online thanks to the explosion of Webzines. Ellen Datlow, editor of Omni Online, Event Horizon, and SciFiction, led the charge into the brave new world of science fiction. Digital Domains collects some of the best, and most controversial, works in print well, except for your home printer for the first time.

Best New Horror 16 (By:Stephen Jones)

This is the latest edition of the world’s foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Here are some of the very best short stories and novellas by today’s finest exponents of horror fiction including Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell and Tanith Lee.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 also contains the most comprehensive overview of horror around the world during the year, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is required reading for every fan of macabre fiction.

The Man from the Diogenes Club (By:Kim Newman)

In the swinging seventies, Richard Jeperson secret agent of the Diogenes Club solves crimes too strange for Britain’s police. His fashion sense is gaudy, his enemies deadly, his associates glamorous.

Snow White, Blood Red

Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children…
But no longer. You hold in your hands a volume of wonders magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our day. But these are not bedtime stories designed to usher an innocent child gently into a realm of dreams. These are stories that bite lush and erotic, often dark and disturbing mystical journeys through a phantasmagoric landscape of distinctly adult sensibilities…
where there is no such thing as ‘happily ever after.’

Black Thorn, White Rose

Once Upon A Time…
A seduced prince willingly fell prey to a sensuous usurper’s erotic treacheries…
a flesh eating ogre gamboled in the footlights…
a gingerbread man fled in terror from the baking pan to the fire…
The award winning editors of Snow White, Blood Red return us to distinctly adult realms of myth and the fantastic with eighteen wondorous works that cloak the magical fictions we heard at Grandma’s knee in mantles of darkness and dread. From Roger Zelansky’s delightful tale of Death’s disobedient godson to Peter Straub’s blood chilling examination of a gargantuan Cinderella and her terrible twisted ‘art,’ here are stories strange and miraculous remarkable modern storytelling that remold our most cherished childhood fables into things sexier, more sinister…
and more appealing to grown up tastes and sensiblilities.

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

‘Once upon a time…
‘ So begin the classic fairy tales that enthralled and terrified us as children. Now, in their third critically acclaimed collection of original fairy tales for adults, World Fantasy Award winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring us twenty one new stories by some of the top names in literature today. Joyce Carol Oates, Gahan Wilson, Gene Wolfe, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman these are but a few of the accomplished literary sorcerers who have gathered here to remold our timeless myths into more sensuous and disturbing forms. Like the fabled ruby slippers, there is powerful magic here. Rich witches in trendy resorts cast evil spells…
beautiful princesses age and wither in sleeping worlds…
terrible beasts reside beneath flawless skin. Dark, disturbing, delightful, each story was written expressly for this superb collection of distinctly grown up fantasy a brilliant companion volume to Datlow and Windling’s acclaimed anthologies, Snow White, Blood Red and Black Thorn, White Rose.

Black Swan, White Raven

A stellar assymbly of many of today’s most creative and accomplished storytellers has gathered around the tribal fire to embroider well worn yarns with new golden thread. Black Swan, White Raven revisits the tales that charmed, enthralled, and terrified us in our early youth carrying us aloft into the healthy, beating heart of cherished myth to tell once again the stories of Rumpelstiltskins and sleeping beauties, only this time from an edgy, provocative and distinctly adult perspective. The themes and archetypes of our beloved childhood fiction are reexamined in a darker light by 21 superb teller of tales who deftly uncover the ironic, the outrageous, the enigmatic and the erotic at the core of the world’s best known fables, while revealing the sobering truths and lies behind ‘happily ever after.’

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

The four previous volumes in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s anthology series of fairly tales retold with a distinctively modern edge have been hailded by reviewers as ‘brilliant,’ ‘provocative,’ and ‘disturbing.’ In this triumphant new collection of original fiction, twenty one of today’s leading writers spin the cherished fables of childhood into glittering gold offering magical tales for adults, as seductive as they are sophisticated.A jealous prince plots the destruction of his hated brother’s wedding by inventing a ‘magic’ suit of clothing visible only to the pure at heart…
A young girl’s strange fairy tale obsession results in a brutal murder…
An embittered mother cares for her dying son who is trapped in a thicket that guards a sleeping beauty…
In a bleak and desolate industrial wasteland, a group of violent outcasts lays the tattered myths of one Millenium to rest, and gives terrifying birth to those of the next. Erotic, compelling, witty, and altogether extraordinary, these stories lay bare our innermost demons and desires imaginatively transforming our youthful fantasies into things darker, slyer, and more delightfully subversive.

Black Heart, Ivory Bones

Hair bright as gold…
Lips red as blood…
Heart black as sin…
Truth sharp as bone…
As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew.’ Black Heart, Ivory Bones‘ showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child that was and the adult that is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists in contemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.’ A lovelorn prince seeking his father’s blessing concocts a fantastic tale of a witch, a tower, and lustrous long hair…
A pair of accursed red boots punishes a beautiful dancer for her pride…
A troll killing, princess rescuing warrior is compelled to consider events from his adversaries’ point of view…
In a blistering tell all memoir, Goldilocks reveals the sordid truth about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear…
‘Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional anew treasures as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft told tales. As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual,and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew. Black Heart, Ivory Bones showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child that was and the adult that is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists in contemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.’A lovelorn prince seeking his father’s blessing concocts a fantastic tale of a witch, a tower, and lustrous long hair…
A pair of accursed red boots punishes a beautiful dancer for her pride…
A troll killing, princess rescuing warrior is compelled to consider events from his adversaries’ point of view…
In a blistering tell all memoir, Goldilocks reveals the sordid truth about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear…
Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional new treasures as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds, and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft told tales. As in their previous critically acclaimed volumes of reconsidered fairy tales, award winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have gathered together remarkable stories that illuminate the more sinister, sensual, and sophisticated aspects of the tales we cherished in childhood; the fables of witches and princes and lost children that we once imagined we knew. Black Heart, Ivory Bones showcases twenty beguiling tales for the child that was and the adult that is, penned by twenty of the most creative artists incontemporary American literature. Here dissected are the darker anatomies of the timeless, seemingly simple stories we have long loved. Here wonder and truth have serious bite.’A lovelorn prince seeking his father’s blessing concocts a fantastic tale of a witch, a tower, and lustrous long hair…
A pair of accursed red boots punishes a beautiful dancer for her pride…
A troll killing, princess rescuing warrior is compelled to consider events from his adversaries’ point of view…
In a blistering tell all memoir, Goldilocks reveals the sordid truth about her brutal foster parent, Papa Bear…
Rich, surprising, funny, erotic, and unsettling, these twenty new yarns and poems offer exceptional new treasures as they brilliantly reveal lusts and jealousies, foibles, hatreds, and dangerous obsessions, the things that slyly lurk in the midnight interior of oft told tales.

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest

One of our most enduring, universal myths is that of the Green Man the spirit who stands for Nature in its most wild and untamed form, a man with leaves for hair who dwells deep within the mythic forest. Through the ages and around the world, the Green Man and other nature spirits have appeared in stories, songs, and artwork, as well as many beloved fantasy novels, including Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Now Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, the acclaimed editors of over twenty anthologies, have gathered some of today’s finest writers of magical fiction to interpret the spirits of nature in short stories and poetry. Charles Vess Stardust brings his stellar eye and brush to the decorations, and Windling provides an introduction exploring Green Man symbolism and forest myth. The Green Man will become required reading for teenagers and adults alike not only for fans of fantasy fiction, but for anyone interested in mythology and the mysteries of the wilderness.

The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm

Faeries, or creatures like them, can be found in almost every culture the world over benevolent and terrifying, charming and exasperating, shifting shape from country to country, story to story, and moment to moment. In The Faery Reel, acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have asked some of today’s finest writers of fantastic fiction for short stories and poems that draw on the great wealth of world faery lore and classic faery literature. This companion to the World Fantasy Award winner and Locus bestseller The Green Man is edgy, provocative, and thoroughly magical. Like the faeries themselves.

The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People

What do werewolves, vampires, and the Little Mermaid have in common? They are all shapechangers. In The Beastly Bride, acclaimed editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling bring together original stories and poems from a stellar lineup of authors including Peter S. Beagle, Ellen Kushner, Jane Yolen, Lucius Shepard, and Tanith Lee, as well as many new, diverse voices. Terri Windling provides a scholarly, yet accessible introduction, and Charles Vess’s decorations open each story. From Finland to India, the Pacific Northwest to the Hamptons, shapechangers are part of our magical landscape and The Beastly Bride is sure to be one of the most acclaimed anthologies of the year.

After the King

After the King presents an outstanding collection of new fantasy stories by an extraordinary assemblage of some of the very best writers to ever continue the tradition Tolkien began with The Lord of the Rings. Stephen R. Donaldson, Peter S. Beagle, Andrew Nortong, Terry Pratchett, Robert Silverberg, Judith Tarr, Gregory Benford, Jane Yolen, Poul and Karen Anderson, Mike Resnick, Emma Bull, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, John Brunner, Harrr Turtledove, Dennis L. McKiernan, Karen Haber, Barry M. Malzberg, and Charles de Lint contribute to a dazzling anthology that captures the spirit and originality of Tolkien’s great work. The millions whose lives have been touched by J.R.R. Tolkien will find the same primal storytelling magic here, undiluted an running ever on.

To Weave a Web of Magic

A romantic fantasy anthology with four novellas from renowned authors of romance and fantasy…

USA Today best selling author Claire Delacroix gives readers a revisionist version of the medieval legend of Melusine. USA Today best selling author Lynn Kurland’s trademark style shines in this tale of the magic and medieval romance between two lovers.

World Fantasy Award winner Patricia A. McKillip tells of an artist’s model and the transforming power of beauty and inspiration.

National best selling author Sharon Shinn offers a compelling romance set in a strange new off world of angels and revolving around the pursuit of love.

The very thrill of love comes dazzlingly to life when these four shining stars or romance and fantasy weave their own web of magic for their legions of fans.

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