Fantasy / Short Stories

The Burned Tower

by Sergey Dyachenko & Marina Dyachenko

A truck driver on a lonely stretch of road, a hitchiker, and an ancient curse— a brilliant and moving tale, steeped in folklore, by the masters of modern Fantasy. In 1999 "The Burned Tower" was awarded the...

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition

by Elizabeth Bear, Adam Troy Castro, Paul Cornell & Kathryn Cramer et al.

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2012. Includes stories by Elizabeth Bear, Adam Troy Castro, Paul Cornell, Kathryn Cramer, Brit Mandelo, Pat Murphy, Charles Stross,...

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2011 Edition

by Charlie Jane Anders, James Alan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee & Nnedi Okorafor et al.

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2011. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, James Allan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sandborn Smith,...

The Fierce Reads Anthology

by Anna Banks, Leigh Bardugo, Jennifer Bosworth & Emmy Laybourne et al.

This anthology includes short stories from five fierce young adult authors! Inside, you’ll find a magical mermaid tale from Anna Banks, a fantastical Russian-influenced story from Leigh Bardugo, an electric...

A Pehov Duet

by Alexey Pehov

Two original, exciting and engaging short stories from Alexey Pehov that feature master thief Shadow Harold, the protagonist of the Chronicles of Siala epic fantasy series. In "The Snake", Harold, the most...

Swift, Brutal Retaliation

by Meghan McCarron

You can't win a ghostly prank war with your dead big brother. Only survive it.

At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Men Who Wish to Drown

by Elizabeth Fama

From the Falmouth Historical Society Collection

Cited as the only extant firsthand record of a mermaid encounter in New England waters, this deathbed letter from a great-grandfather to his great-grandson is more...

Legacy Lost

by Anna Banks

He is a mer-prince, she is the mermaid princess that his family orders him to marry so that their kingdoms unite. Grom dreads this arrangement, until he meets Nalia – both beautiful and smart, she’s everything...

The Iron Shirts

by Michael Flynn

In a world in which horses survived to flourish in 13th-century America, the wars and rivalries of thirteenth-century Ireland have new players: the mysterious warriors from across the Western Sea, called by...

The Essential Lord Dunsany Collection

by Lord Dunsany

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Lord Dunsany:

The Book of Wonder

Don Rodriguez

A Dreamer's Tales

Fifty-One Tales

Gods of Pegana

Plays of Near and Far

Tales of Wonder

Time and the Gods...

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...

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...

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…

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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...

The Commonplace Book

by Jacob Clifton

The first piece of short fiction by popular Television Without Pity writer Jacob Clifton is like nothing we’ve ever read, a piece of postmodern steampunk encompassing past, present, and future all at once....

King of Marbury

by Andrew Smith

Marbury is another world, a dark world that best friends Jack Whitmore and Conner Kirk have fallen into before. A stranger had given Jack a pair of glasses – it’s through the lenses that the boys get to...

Ruled

by Caragh M. O'Brien

The bracelet sits in his pocket, patiently waiting to be slipped around Gaia's wrist. Leon needs to see her again. He finds out that Gaia is delivering a baby in the village, and he makes the trip to visit the...

The Cairn in Slater Woods

by Gina Rosati

Dylan has just moved to New Hampshire to live in a house his family has inherited from a great aunt he's never met. There he meets his cousin, a bully who resents Dylan's family, and a mysterious girl who claims...

A Spell of Vengeance

by D. B. Jackson

Ethan Kaille is a thieftaker in Colonial Boston, scratching out a living by restoring stolen property to its rightful owners. But unlike others in his profession, Ethan relies on magical spells as well as his...