A spine-tingling collection of original short stories from some of the hottest authors in urban fantasy; featuring an original Harry Dresden Story. For fans of Jim Butcher, Laurell K. Hamilton, Patricia Briggs

In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today’s hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher’s ”Curses” Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs’ “Fairy Gifts,” a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr’s “Guns for the Dead,” the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black’s “Noble Rot,” a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own.

Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection is sure to have readers coming back for more.

Contents:

- Curses by Jim Butcher

- How the Pooka Came to New York City by Delia Sherman

- On the Slide by Richard Bowes

- The Duke of Riverside by Ellen Kushner

- Fairy Gifts by Patricia Briggs

- Picking up the Pieces by Pat Cadigan

- Underbridge by Peter S. Beagle

- Priced to Sell by Naomi Novik

- The Bricks of Gelecek by Matthew Kressel

- Weston Walks by Kit Reed

- The projected Girl by Lavie Tidhar

- Guns for the Dead by Nelissa Marr

- And Go Like This by John Crowley

- Noble Rot by Holly Black

- Daddy Long Legs of the Evening by Jeffrey Ford

- The Skinny Girl by Lucius Shepard

- The Colliers’ Venus by Caitlin R. Kiernan

- King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree by Elizabeth Bear

 

ELLEN DATLOW is a multiple award-winning editor that has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the horror half of the long-running The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She lives in New York. Visit her on the web at www.datlow.com.