Fantasy / Short Stories

Driving Blind

by Ray Bradbury

The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker....

Hair Raising

by Kevin J. Anderson

"The Dan Shamble books are great fun." --Simon R. Green

Ready-To-Were

The fur really flies when a serial scalper stalks the supernatural citizens of the Unnatural Quarter, targeting werewolves--and what's sadder...

Fantasy Score

by Tom Robertson

Treat yourself to a break from the daily routine. Imagine myths in modern settings. Is re-enacted now and do legends still unfold amid the turmoil of our times? Can ghosts and guardian angels help or harm? Do...

The Hanging Game

by Helen Marshall

Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Skye learns just how far she is willing to go to play the game properly in order carry on the traditions that came...

Household Worms

by Stanley Donwood

Stanley Donwood says of a selection of stories contained in Household Worms that were inspired by drinking red wine alone at night: 'These were written to avoid staring for too long at a night-filled window...

Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter

by Richard Parks

In an ancient Japan where the incursions of gods, ghosts, and demons into the living world is an everyday event, an impoverished nobleman named Yamada no Goji makes his living as a demon hunter for hire. With...

Pros and Cons

by Jenna Black

An original eNovella in the acclaimed Nikki Glass urban fantasy series, taking place between the events of the novels Deadly Descendant and Rogue Descendant.

As a living descendant of Artemis the Huntress, private...

Last Train to Jubilee Bay

by Kali Wallace

After the sickness and quarantine almost destroyed the city, the traders arrived creeping out from the sea to live off the memories of those people left behind; getting them addicted to the serum these strange...

The Door to Saturn

by Clark Ashton Smith

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context....

When We Were Heroes

by Daniel Abraham

George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards multi-author shared-world universe has been thrilling readers for over 25 years. Now, in addition to overseeing the ongoing publication of new Wild Cards books (like 2011's Fort...

Mahaha's Victims

by Giselle Renarde

When crafty Kooloo takes Gyta out in her truck, things get a little too hot and heavy for Gyta's liking. The attention is nice, but she just wants to go home. En route, the truck hits something big. Damned if...

Harry and Me

by Jim Harrington

An out-of-work salesman looking for a job stumbles upon Harry, an orphan who's aged out of the system and is a self-taught musician. After their chance meeting on a forest lane, the two partner up for a new...

Daughter of Regals & Other Tales

by Stephen R. Donaldson

A short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author—available in trade paperback for the first time.

“Donaldson proves that he is as adept at the short story as he is at the novel" (Denver...

Mariposa

by Nancy Springer

Aimee believes everything in her life is great. She's got a boyfriend who's terrific (in bed and out), a penthouse apartment, and everything else a girl of privilege could possibly want. Well, except for a soul....

Unnatural Acts

by Kevin J. Anderson

To Be Dead Or Not To Be Dead

In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up--to work the night shift. But zombie detective...

Heads Will Roll

by Lish McBride

Lena’s not your typical animal trainer. And when she and her unicorn partner, Steve, decide to enter a fight, it’s definitely not your typical fight…

At the publisher's request, this title is being sold...

The Harvest

by Vicki Pettersson

Originally appeared in the print anthology Holidays Are Hell.

New York Times bestselling author Vicki Pettersson brings a former superhero—an elite Zodiac warrior—back to the mortal world for a Thanksgiving...

Wild Things

by A.M. Dellamonica

Ah, love. A many splendored thing. Here is a rather unusual love story, sweet and strange as could only happen in the post-magical reality of the Indigo Springs "event." The sequel to Indigo Springs was published...

Into the Woods

by Kim Harrison

Enter the woods . . . if you dare

Into the Woods

For centuries, the woods have been a pivotal part of the wonder and danger of fairy tales, for once you enter anything can happen. Elves, druids, fairies—who...

Champavert: Immoral Tales

by Petrus Borel the Lycanthrope & Brian Stableford

Champavert was the archetypal collection of the French "contes cruels," and the book still remains among the cruellest of them all. It is also one of the greatest collections of short stories ever published;...