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A collection of fantasy stories, many from New York Times–bestselling authors, featuring mythical dragons.
Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture and have been creating their own mythologies...
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A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2013. Includes stories by Dale Bailey, Leigh Bardugo, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and Genevieve Valentine.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Kudo Kazehaya's name evokes the wind, which is given to warn him that one day he, too, might disappear. He almost thought his time had come-until he was rescued by the dark, handsome, and equally mysterious Himura Rikuo. Now they both reside where Rikuo works, the Green Drugstore, a place that dispenses not only medicine but the secret powers of both Rikuo and Kazehaya, as the pair embark on missions into the paranormal at the bidding of its strange...
4) The Bacchae
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A bold new translation of Euripides' shockingly modern classic work, from Forward Prize-winning poet Robin Robertson, with a new preface by bestselling and award-winning writer, critic, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn
Thebes has been rocked by the arrival of Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy. Drawn by the god's power, the women of the city have rushed to worship him on the mountain, drinking and dancing with frenzied abandon.
Pentheus, the...
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Wenn's schiefgeht, was glauben Sie, wer dann in der Fantasy-Welt aufräumt?
Hier lesen Sie, was Sie sonst nie erfahren,
-von eingestaubten Schrumpfköpfen
-von großen Kriegern mit Hexenschuss
-von Magierinnen mit Reinlichkeitswahn
-von Staubteufeln im Ohr
-von Katzengemeinheiten
-von der fliegenden Putzkavallerie
-von detektivischer Putzarbeit im Schatten der Pyramiden
-von Hexenbesen im Großeinsatz
-von der Putzkolonne Walhalls
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Strange things can happen in the woods.
Sometimes they're frightening.
Sometimes they're funny.
Sometimes they're just plain weird.
The authors of the Fiction Foundry writers' critique group have taken it upon themselves to explore all the strange things that happen in the often majestic and yet often harsh woodlands.
Fiction Foundry, established 2012, is a group of writers dedicated to helping prepare one another's work for professional publication....
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WHAT'S SO SCARY ABOUT VIRGINIA?
From Edgar Allan Poe's Ragged Mountains to the shores of Tidewater's Seven Cities...
From the blood-soaked battlegrounds of the Civil War to the shadowy political arena of the D.C. Beltway...
We have four hundred years' worth of ghost stories, folk horrors, small-town terrors, urban legends, backwoods beasts, otherworldly secrets, and down-home Southern Gothic.
Within this idyllic landscape, there are many dark corners....
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A collection of "mesmerizing tales, each one creepier than the next" that go beyond the traditional vampire myths (Library Journal).
When we think of vampires, an image instantly arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism. For this brilliantly original anthology, multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow solicited stories from many of the most powerfully dark voices in contemporary...
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Tales of blood, magic, and steel by masters of the craft! Stories, essays, and poetry by:
Kevin J. AndersonBruce BostonGreg CoxDana Fredsti & David FitzgeraldNeil GaimanTeel James GlennMaxwell I. GoldHoward Andrew JonesBrian W. MatthewsGreg MollinJames A. MooreWeston OchseMarguerite ReedCharles R. RutledgeJane Yolen
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Sixteen tales that combine the otherworldly with hardboiled crime fiction-from Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Paul G. Tremblay, Melanie Tem, and others.
Here are the femme fatales, the tough guys, the down-on-their-luck detectives-but with a twist. Collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow, these stories of the murderous and macabre will take you onto the dark streets of worlds unlike our own, where the monstrous...
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From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected in a Single Paperback Volume
Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more— a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade...
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A collection of funny tales in which magic is sure to be present!
There is not a single child in the whole world who would not like fairy tales! Especially folk tales transmitted from generation to generation. The wise Russian people composed many fairy tales: funny and sad, magical and everyday, long and short, fairy tales for the youngest children and older children.
Most of these tales collected in the audiobook, which stand in the hands. Give...
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Collection of funny animal tales. There is not a single child in the whole world who would not like fairy tales! Especially folk tales transmitted from generation to generation. The wise Russian people composed many fairy tales: funny and sad, magical and everyday, long and short, fairy tales for the youngest children and older children.
Most of these tales collected in the audiobook, which stand in the hands. Give your children the opportunity to...
14) Into the Forest
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A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by the Baba Yaga. Featuring Gwendolyn Kiste, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Mercedes M. Yardley, Monique Snyman, Donna Lynch, Lisa Quigley, and R. J. Joseph, with a foreword by Christina Henry.
Deep in the dark forest, in a cottage that spins on birds' legs behind a fence topped with human skulls, lives the baba yaga. A guardian of the water of life, she lives with her sisters and takes to the skies...
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Collection of funny animal tales. There is not a single child in the whole world who would not like fairy tales! Especially folk tales transmitted from generation to generation. The wise Russian people composed many fairy tales: funny and sad, magical and everyday, long and short, fairy tales for the youngest children and older children.
Most of these tales collected in the audiobook, which stand in the hands. Give your children the opportunity to...
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Robert E. Howard's Conan is brought to life Uncensored! Discover the true Conan, unrestrained, violent, and sexual. Read the story as he intended!
A world to explore. A throne to be reconquered. Conan the King.
Under the funeral vaults of the mausoleum belonging to the ancient and cruel Emperor Xaltotun of Python, three men devoured by ambition come to offer to the inert body of the deceased sovereign the heart of Ahriman, a source of immor-tality...
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Encounter the scariest clowns and freakiest curiosities under the big top, in stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, Priya Sharma, and others.
With an introduction from Katherine Dunn
Ladies and gentlemen, step right up for fifteen tales of terrifying rides, supernatural sideshows, and petrifying performers guaranteed to keep you up all night-with Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow as the ringmaster.
In Stephen...
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series returns with a splendidly startling fourth volume!
From paranormal plots to stories of the supernatural, tales of the unfamiliar have always fascinated us humans. To keep the tradition alive, fantasy aficionado Paula Guran has gathered the most delightfully disturbing work from some of today's finest writers of the fantastique!
No two mysterious shadows are alike, and the same can be said for the books...
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Unicorns, with their single ivory horn, are elusive and magical creatures of myth. Yet even more elusive are the purple unicorns. First sighted at the Superstars Writing Seminars, their legend has grown year after year until it could only be contained in this anthology. Nineteen storytellers, including Peter S. Beagle, Todd McCaffrey, and Jody Lynn Nye, as well as new and rising authors, invite us into worlds both near and far, across a desert oasis,...
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From fantastical realms to real-world struggles, this young adult anthology champions queer identity by challenging stereotypes and exploring the many facets of identity. Written with wit, heart and honesty, these stories take queer protagonists outside the box of YA romance and centre them at the heart of stories that involve magic, paranormal beings and adventure. Featuring trans and gender-diverse voices – asexual, aromantic, bisexual and more...
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