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 »

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 »

The catastrophe that sank Atlantis also sank the peninsula of Castle Minterl, and along with it the companion stone to the Traveling Eye--magic emeralds used for spying on enemies. Durily, daughter of Lady Tinylla and distant relative to the drowned King, returns to the only section of the castle still ... 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 »

Not since Terry Goodkind unsheathed the Sword of Truth has there been such an epic tale of heroism and magic that so captures the imagination as this monumental new work by a master storyteller. In The Fifth Sorceress , Robert Newcomb conjures a time and place wrought with exquisite detail, characters ... more »

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 »

Le rideau cramoisi Le plus bel amour de Don Juan Le bonheur dans le crime Le dessous de cartes d'une partie de whist A un diner d'athées La vengeance d'une femme more » more »

Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure ... 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 »