A young girl's strange affection for coldness is rewarded by secret winter flights on the legendary Ice Dragon, who comes to visit her isolated playground in the frozen fields near her family's farm. When her uncle, a dragonrider for the king's army, warns them they must soon flee south to escape the ... more »

A WONDER FILLED TREASURY OF DUNSANY'S BEST BOOKS! Here, in one inexpensive ebook are five full-length books by this legendary master of fantasy and terror, the man H. P. Lovecraft models his work by. Now is your chance to read his best-loved works, The Book of Wonder, A Dreamer's Tales, Fifty-One Tales ... more »

A new evil threatens Midkemia, its web stretching from the deepest criminal underworld all the way up to the highest seats of power in ancient Kesh. And the Conclave of Shadows, charged unexpectedly with the training of two apprentices, must also best powerful agents of the darkest magic . . . for the ... more »

When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight ... more »

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Children fear the monster under the bed or the creature in the closet. But Victorian climbing boys, the poorest of the poor, have neither beds nor closets. What sort of monster would they fear? [Author Note: Thin Man was inspired by a pair of poems by William Blake, both titled The Chimney Sweeper. The ... more »

E-book extra: Neil Gaiman's Because I Say So: The Making of Neverwhere. Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never ... more »

An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds, and Weyrs of Pern that it had affected even the businesslike ways of Moreta, the Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, where her dragon, Queen Orlith, would soon clutch. Then without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill. Soon myriads of holders, craftsmen ... more »

In a time when the deadly scourge Thread has not fallen on Pern for centuries--and many dare to hope that Thread will never fall again--a boy is born to Harper Hall. A musical prodigy who has the ability to speak with the dragons, he is called Robinton, and he is destined to be one of the most famous ... more »

That poor Pied Piper never wanted to be a stay-at-home father. Maybe he should have thought a little harder about what it would be like to be stuck inside a cave with a hundred kids before delivering his ultimatum to the townsfolk of Hamelin. more »

As director of the Jerhattan Parapsychic Center, telepath Rhyssa Owen coordinated the job assignments for psychically gifted Talents. And though she had her hands full dealing with the unreasonable demand for kinetics to work on the space platform that would be humankind's stepping-stone to the stars ... more »