~~~ Set in Newford, a quintessential North American city that might exist anywhere or nowhere, de Lint's stories wander amid the tenements and the music clubs, the waterfront and the alleyways, where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Here, ghosts loiter under street lamps, gemmins live in abandoned cars, and goblins traverse the tunnels below. ~~~ You'll meet folks like Jilly Coppercorn, a painter who sees wonder on these mean streets; Christy Riddell, writer and collector of urban folk tales and odd stories; his brother Geordie, a street fiddler who calls up enchantment with his music; and many others, like the boy who saves feral bicycles, the girl who stumbles into "the city of bridges," an origami fortune teller, a serial killer of people's dreams, "bone woman," and a conjure man. ~~~ With The Newford Stories, de Lint weaves before you a mesmerizing tapestry of stark realism, fond hope, and illimitable dreams.

    This special SFBC edition has ISBN 0-7394-0582-9; it lacks a price and has the SFBC number on the back jacket. Copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox.

    Alone, yet never lonely, she s now found a kindred spirit in Edmund Reynolds a wandering witch of a spiritual quest to help those in need. Together, these two special people who live outside normal reality will embark on an odyssey of the imagination. They will look into the darkest depths of the past. And they will encounter things both wonderful and terrifying.

    However, characters do reoccur, off center stage as it were, and their stories do follow a sequence."

    

    But the transitions brought on by this Time of Reckoning are unknown. Great power, great destruction, great anguish -- all or none may arise.The threat of the Reckoning is not limited to humans. It has also stirred beings from the Otherworlds, and creatures that once were human, but now live on as Spirits or the Undead. Some of them are willing to work openly, side by side with the Gifted and the Mundane. Others prefer to operate in secrecy. Still others have hidden agendas that they pursue ahead of any common purpose.Only time will tell what lays ahead.Time . . . and your choices. Mystery Codex is a supplement for the WitchCraft roleplaying game. In it, you will find:• Two new Character Types, the Spirits and Undead, with accompanying character creation rules, powers, vulnerabilities and background for Ghosts, Phantasms, Vampyres and the Relentless Dead• New Associations: shunned Pariahs, dedicated Iscariots, elite Storm Dragons and death-obsessed Thanatoi• New Invocations and Necromancy, the gruesome Disciplines of the Flesh, and the mystical Tao-Chi• Background on Geburah, the Sephiroth of the Dead• New Character Concepts, Qualities and Drawbacks, Skills and Rules

    Trouble arises when their purpose and challenges seem to be drying up and the number of supernatural nasties rapidly diminishing. Have the forces of darkness been defeated, or is there a more sinister manipulation at work?