Down These Strange Streets

Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations

Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Neil Gaiman, Simon R. Green, Charlaine Harris, Tanya Huff, Faith Hunter, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Maberry, Carrie Vaughn, Ilsa J. Bick, Bradley Denton, Elizabeth Bear, Lillian Stewart Carl, P.N. Elrod, Richard Bowes, Sarah Monette, Justin Gustainis, · 480 pages

Dead of Night

J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts, Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, Mary Kay McComas · 491 pages

Nora Roberts, writing as J.D. Robb, puts futuristic lieutenant Eve Dallas in a supernatural showdown with a most seductive criminal: a vampire. An ancient coin whisks an American woman and a modern-day earl into the past-and into each other's arms-in a stirring tale from Mary Blayney. When a city girl visits a Scottish castle in Ruth Ryan Langan's story, she is thrust into a timeless romance

Many Bloody Returns

Christopher Golden, Bill Crider, Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, P.N. Elrod, Rachel Caine, Jeanne C. Stein, Tanya Huff, Carolyn Haines, Tate Hallaway, Elaine Viets · 361 pages

Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again.In New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris's "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is the only human at the ann

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Robert J. Sawyer, Stephen King, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Peter Tremayne, Tim Lebbon, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McInty · 402 pages

A Sherlockiana primer / Christopher Roden -- [The doctor's case / Stephen King][1] -- The horror of the many faces / Tim Lebbon -- The case of the bloodless sock / Anne Perry -- The adventure of the other detective / Bradley H. Sinor -- A scandal in Montreal / Edward D. Hoch -- The adventure of the field theorems / Vonda N. McIntyre -- The adventure of the death-fetch / Darrell Schweitzer -

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy

Ellen Datlow · 539 pages

An anthology of gritty supernatural tales of magic and mischief by leading genre authors includes an original "Harry Dresden" by Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs' story about a vampire who must save the Fae who lifted his curse, and Holly Black's short pieceabout a rock star who discovers a young woman's unnatural appetites.

Strange Brew

Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Faith Hunter, Karen Chance, Rachel Caine, Caitlin Kittredge, Jenna Maclaine · 371 pages

In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," set in the same world as Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series, a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband. In the Alpha & Omega series short story "Seeing Eye" by Patricia Briggs, a blind witch helps sexy werewolf Tom Franklin find his missing brother—and helps him in more ways than either of them ever su

Death's Excellent Vacation

Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost, Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, L.A. Banks, Christopher Golden, Chris Grabenstein, A. Lee Martinez, Sharan Newman, Daniel Stashower, Sarah Smith · 353 pages

With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque.

Hotter Than Hell

Kim Harrison, Martin H. Greenberg · 504 pages

Beyond the boundaries of the everyday is an unseen realm where anything you imagine is possible. Your demon lover is waiting for you in the shadows, ready to fulfill your secret wishes and most dangerous fantasies. Here passion has a face and form both titillating and terrifying—and love has teeth and claws. Get ready to give in to your craving for something exquisitely dark...and different.Hotter

Hex Appeal

Jim Butcher, Carrie Vaughn, Ilona Andrews, Erica Hayes, Rachel Caine, Carole Nelson Douglas, Simon R. Green, Lori Handeland · 368 pages

An anthology of stories edited by P N Elrod. Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal… In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss -- or raise him back again. And they’re not afraid to exact sweet revenge on those who dare to cross them. But what if you’re the unlucky soul

Wolfsbane and Mistletoe

Charlaine Harris

An Apple for the Creature

Ilona Andrews, Jonathan Maberry, Donald Harstad, Marjorie M. Liu, Rhys Bowen, Amber Benson, Faith Hunter, Steve Hockensmith, Nancy Holder, Thomas E. Sniegoski, M.R. Carey · 400 pages

Holidays Are Hell

Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Marjorie M. Liu, Vicki Pettersson · 374 pages

Four romance authors--Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Marjorie M. Liu, and Vicki Pettersson--explore the seductive and dangerous world of the supernatural in four sensuous tales of the holidays run amok, from Thanksgiving to New Year's.

Dark and Stormy Knights

P.N. Elrod

My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, L.A. Banks, Rachel Caine, Lori Handeland, Susan Krinard, Esther M. Friesner · 314 pages

Werewolves, vampires, and Elvis populate this collection of all new and original supernatural wedding stories from such award-winning authors as Sherrilyn Kenyon, Charlaine Harris, L.A. Banks, and Jim Butcher.

Prom Nights from Hell

Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe, Stephenie Meyer, Lauren Myracle · 304 pages

In this exciting collection, bestselling authors Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms), Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty), Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), and Lauren Myracle (ttyl) take bad prom nights to a whole new level—a paranormally bad level. Wardrobe malfunctions and two left feet don't hold a candle to discovering your date is the Grim Reaper—and he isn't here to tell you h

Shadowed Souls

Jim Butcher, Kerrie L. Hughes · 338 pages

"In this dark and gritty collection--featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman--nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil ... Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line. In #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher's Cold Case, Molly Carpenter--Harry Dresden's apprentice-turned-Winter

Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse

Charlaine Harris, Toni L.P. Kelner · 343 pages

"...though Sookie's story has come to an end, these tales of her and the characters who populated her world will give you a different perspective on the series you thought you knew..."--Book jacket.

Bite

Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davidson, Angela Knight, Vickie Taylor · 297 pages

A never-before-published Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter story from New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. A brand-new story from New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris, featuring the much-loved Sookie Stackhouse.A hot new novella from USA Today bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson, set in the world of Undead and Unwed's Betsy Taylor, the newly, and reluctantly,crowned Va

The Urban Fantasy Anthology

Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Jeffrey Ford, Kelley Armstrong, Norman Partridge, Carrie Vaughn, Patricia Briggs, Bruce McAllister, Suzy McKee Charnas, Francesca Lia Block, Thomas M. Disch, Susan Palwick, Holly Black, Steven R. Boyett, Tim Powers, Al Sarrantonio

Introduction by Peter S. Beagle Mythic Fiction Introduction: A Personal Journey into Mythic Fiction by Charles de Lint "A Bird That Whistles" by Emma Bull "Make a Joyful Noise" by Charles de Lint "The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories" by Neil Gaiman "On the Road to New Egypt" by Jeffrey Ford "Julie's Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle Paranormal Romance Introduction: A Funny Thing Hap

Kicking It

Faith Hunter, Kalayna Price · 353 pages

"New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine has modern-day potions witches Holly and Andrew facing off against a firebrand politician who wears literally killer boots in a Texas-sized rodeo of trouble. Boot-loving Cadogan vampire Lindsey must team up with off-again, on-again vampire partner Luc when a woman from her past is targeted by supernaturals in New York Times bestselling author Chloe N

Games Creatures Play

Brandon Sanderson, Mercedes Lackey, Seanan McGuire, Adam-Troy Castro, Laura Lippman, William Kent Krueger, Jan Burke, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin Kittredge, Brendan DuBois, Dana Cameron, Scott Sigler, Ellen Kushner · 356 pages

Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner are your announcers for this all-new story collection of the most peculiar plays ever made; sports fans live and die by their teams' successes and failures-though not literally. But these fourteen authors have written spirited-in more ways than one-new tales of

The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Mike Ashley · 524 pages

Singular, capital, wonderfully enjoyable, this is the biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories published since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime. Almost all the stories are specially written for the collection and the cases are presented in the order in which Holmes solved them. T

Chicks Kick Butt

Kerrie L. Hughes · 349 pages

The Bane Chronicles

Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson · 520 pages

A collection of eleven short stories, previously published online, that illuminate the life of the enigmatic, flashy, and flamboyant High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus Bane, a character in The Mortal Instruments series.