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 »

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 »

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 »

This is a modern look at witches with a tongue-in-cheek premise about why some people gain weight after marriage while others remain bone thin. This is the kind of story that you want to pass around to all the women in the office, regardless of their weight. The usual comment is: I knew it had to be ... more »

She came in from the rain, a delicate pure thing of feminine beauty and refinement. And now things will never be the same again for one disfuctional royal family. An erotic dark fantasy retelling of the familiar fairytale The Princess and the Pea, told from the point of view of the young, sensually obsessed ... more »

After a beating that left her near death and killed her cat, Anna escaped to a whole new life. Now a cat that looks like her Star has arrived in her backyard. Is it real, a ghost or a figment of her terrified imagination? more »

He can set fires with his mind, influence the actions of animals, and has the remarkable and unique ability to read auras. Orphaned at age 14, Gage, a SpiritKin, vows to hunt down his parents' murderers and kill them. But standing in the way of his quest for revenge is the heir to the throne, who coerces ... more »

There are plenty of stories in which authors are sucked into their own novels, or their characters really come to life. But what if it happened to the copyeditor? And what if she was correcting more than just grammar and spelling? more »

Mitch Sierra is a handsome, intelligent, airline executive who successfully seduces every woman he pursues. When a beautiful new employee catches his eye, the mythological warnings against pursuing Artemis--the stunning beauty's mysterious first-and-last name--only encourage him in his hunt for the virgin ... more »

A HILARIOUS ROMANTIC FANTASY CLASSIC! Only Larry Maddock, creator of Hannibal Fortune and his sardonic shape-changing pal, Webley, could have penned this 1960s classic sex-switch comedy with more than a bit of Thorne Smith and tongue-in-cheek.  It begins when anthropologists George Martin and Helene ... more »

A young Scot survives the disastrous defeat at Culloden only to fall into Faerie, the Otherworld. There he's helped by three beautiful sisters who offer him a second chance, a battle with the monster that lurks beneath the peat-dark waters of Loch Ness. more »

Just because the talking cat you meet keeps insisting he's NOT a talking cat but rather a vampire, well, that doesn't mean you have to believe him, does it? [Artwork by Shaun Tan] Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF Award Winner, Sturgeon Award Nominee more »