Fantasy / Short Stories

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...

The Dragon Tamers and Other Tales: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

by Varla Ventura, Edith Nesbit & Clint Marsh

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection...

Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder from the End of Time

by Darrell Schweitzer

"[This] novel has immense power in its climax," said The Encyclopedia of Fantasy about Darrell Schweitzer's 1982 novel, THE SHATTERED GODDESS. Now, at last, here's the companion volume to that work, a cycle...

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...

Unfallen

by Lilith Saintcrow

Unfallen includes two stand alone stories from New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow. Unfallen: Falling in love with the teenage Antichrist is dangerous, in this short story from New York Times...

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...

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...

The Witch Stories: The Changing Tea

by Erica Morrison

Esmeralda is a shy witch who longs to be noticed. This year she and her cat Pickitywick are attending The North American Spell In, a large witch's convention and she has a plan to get the attention she deserves....

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...

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...

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 Devil Delivered and Other Tales

by Steven Erikson

Steven Erikson has carved a name for himself among the pantheon of great fantasy writers. But his masterful storytelling and prose style go beyond the awe-inspiring Malazan world. In The Devil Delivered and...

Crack'd Pot Trail

by Steven Erikson

It is an undeniable truth: give evil a name and everyone’s happy.  Give it two names and…why, they’re even happier.

Intrepid necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, scourges of civilization, raisers...

Innocents Aboard

by Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF today. His quotes and reviews certainly support that contention, and so does his impressive short fiction oeuvre. Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and...

Strange Travelers

by Gene Wolfe

Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the SF genre. It has been ten years since the last major Wolfe collection, so Strange Travelers contains a whole decade...

Trio of Sorcery

by Mercedes Lackey

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mercedes Lackey presents three exciting short urban fantasy novels featuring three resourceful heroines and three different takes on the modern world and on magics...

Bauchelain and Korbal Broach

by Steven Erikson

The first three tales of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, the famed necromancers from the Malazan Book of the Fallen, collected in one volume. 

BLOOD FOLLOWSIn the port city of Lamentable Moll, a diabolical killer...

Dead After Dark

by Sherrilyn Kenyon, J.R. Ward, Susan Squires & Dianna Love

SHERRILYN KENYON

“Shadow of the Moon”

Angelia has fought her entire life to make herself strong. Now, with her patria under fire, she has to protect her people from Fury and his werewolf clan. Vowing to bring...

Dark and Stormy Knights

by P. N. Elrod

It was a dark and stormy knight, and nine dark defenders embarked upon a most perilous quest….

They’re the ultimate defenders of humanity—modern day knights who do dark deeds for all the right reasons....

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...