If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers: Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny […]
Fifteen top voices in speculative fiction explore the intersection of fear and love in a haunting, at times hilarious, darkly imaginative volume. Predatory kraken that sing with — and for — their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as repel. Welcome to a world where humans […]
Locus Award finalist. Orphans use the puppet of a dead man to take control of their lives. A girl confronts the Grand Technomancer, Most Mighty Mechanician and Highest of the High Artificier Adepts. Another girl, who might be from another universe, stuns everyone when she pulls out her handmade Reality Gun. Welcome to fourteen steampunk […]
* “The 40 selections in this exemplary anthology from Link and Grant (the fantasy half) and Datlow (the horror half) reflect virtually every hue of the fantasy/horror palette. . . . The front matter’s snapshot summaries of the past year’s yield in fantasy, horror, comics, mixed media and music are a small and invaluable book […]
For twenty years this award-winning compilation has been the nonpareil benchmark against which all other annual fantasy and horror collections are judged. Directed first by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling and for the past four years by Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant, it consistently presents the strangest, the funniest, the darkest, the sharpest, […]
So good there had to be a book. Or something. The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet is now available from the fine folks at Del Rey. It’s a collection of fiction and sometimes fancy (but usually plain) knitting patterns (a lie), recipes (ok, there are a few drink recipes), poetry (some great poetry), and an […]
Table of Contents (alphabetical) Summations Isabel Allende, The Guggenheim Lovers Laird Barron, Proboscis Elizabeth Bear, Follow Me Light Andrew Bonia, Jolly Bonnet Chaz Brenchley, Going the Jerusalem Mile Tom Brennan, Scarecrow Jack Cady, The Souls of Drowning Mountain Jennifer Chang, Obedience, or The Lying Tale (poem) Robert Coover, The Last One Albert E. Cowdrey, Twilight […]
Locus Award Winner “Anyone worried about original coeditor Terri Windling’s replacement last year by Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant should chill now. Their second year aboard this annual excursion on the high-quality seas of fantasy, light and dark, shows no decline in quality or quirkiness from their maiden voyage, though with original coeditor Datlow […]
Bram Stoker Award Winner “The proliferation of specialty fantasy publications with short runs and low profiles, combined with the growing pervasiveness of fantasy and horror in mainstream markets that elude genre enthusiasts, has made this annual culling increasingly vital for readers who seek the best in fantastic fiction. Datlow (the horror half) teams with new […]
“Fabulous Tales” —Washington Post Trampoline: an elastic mattress-like contrivance on which acrobats, gymnasts, &c. leap. Trampoline: an original anthology edited by Kelly Link, the award-winning author of Stranger Things Happen, and co-editor of the zine, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. Trampoline: twenty astounding stories by Christopher Barzak, Richard Butner, Alan DeNiro, Carol Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Karen […]