Contributors include Janet Laurence, Mary Daheim, Jane Dentinger, Marlys Millhiser, Nancy Pickard, Marjorie Eccles, Sally Gunning, Jean Hager, Kate Kingsbury, Ellen Hart, Sarah J. Mason, Charlaine Harris, Janet LaPierre, Margaret Lawrence, Betty Rowlands, D.R. Meredith, Katherine Hall Page, and Gillian Linscott.

    Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions —all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.Table of ContentsThe beautiful uncut hair of graves -- David Morrell In carnation -- Nancy Springer The somewhere doors -- Fred Chappell Poe at the end -- (poem) / -- R.H.W. Dillard Angels in love -- Kathe Koja Vivian -- Midori Snyder True love -- K.W. Jeter The second most beautiful woman in the world -- A.R. Morlan The swordsman whose name was not death -- Ellen Kushner The ragthorn -- Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth The smell -- Patrick McGrath The tenth scholar -- Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem Fisher death -- (poem) / -- Jessica Amanda Salmonson Walk in sable -- (poem) / -- Jessica Amanda Salmonson The cut man -- Norman Partridge The kind men like -- Karl Edward Wagner The coon suit -- Terry Bisson Queen Christina and the windsurfer -- Alison Fell Chui Chai -- S.P. Somtow Mama gone -- Jane Yolen Peter -- Pat Murphy Our lady of the harbour -- Charles de Lint The visitor's book -- Stephen Gallagher At the end of the day -- Steve Rasnic Tem The monster -- Nina Katerli Hummers -- Lisa Mason Santa's way -- James Powell Call home -- Dennis Etchison The Braille Encyclopedia -- Grant Morrison The poisoned story -- Rosario Ferre Blood -- Janice Galloway Dogstar man -- Nancy Willard Persistence of memory -- Joanne Greenberg You'll never eat lunch on this continent again -- Adam Gopnik The glamour -- Thomas Ligotti The peony lantern -- Kara Dalkey To be a hero -- (poem) / -- Nancy Springer The same in any language -- Ramsey Campbell Teratisms -- Kathe Koja The life of a poet -- Kobo Abe The witch of Wilton Falls -- Gloria Ericson Home by the sea -- Pat Cadigan Pish, posh, said hieronymus bosch -- (poem) / -- Nancy Willard The ash of memory, the dust of desire -- Poppy Z. Brite The pavilion of frozen women -- S.P. Somtow Moon songs --Carol Emshwiller The afternoon of June 8, 1991 -- Ian Frazier Gwydion and the dragon -- C.J. Cherryh A story must be held -- (poem) / -- Jane Yolen The Ogre's wife -- Pierrette Fleutiaux.

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    She’s not your typical western belle. Can an unconventional love bring them together? A Sweet Western Romance from #1 Best Selling Author Emily Wood Maddie has never been a traditional lady, even for the western frontier. More comfortable on a horse than in a kitchen, she immediately dislikes Cole who has never worked a ranch yet presumes to own one someday. Despite the clear friction, they may learn that an unconventional love is just what they both need. An Unconventional Love is a clean western romance from #1 Best Selling author Emily Woods. If you like clean, historical fiction about women who must overcome tragedy in order to love again, you will love this sweet romance! Buy An Unconventional Love and get lost in another sweet western romance today. Always FREE on Kindle Unlimited

    He dreaded the notion of following in his daed's and grossdaead's footsteps in working for the local RV manufacturer. Surely Gott had a plan for him to live the life Gott intended for him? Noah's maem was a renowned quilter and shopkeeper. She sold local Amish produce and her wonderful Amish quilts from her store, but she missed the opportunities presented by the seasonal flea-market when it closed for the winter months and harvest. With this in mind, Noah secures her a booth at the large Shipshewana flea market a fair distance from their home. It is here that he meets Miriam Yoder whose maem also has a booth at the market. As Christmas quickly approaches, is running out for Noah and he needs to decide on a vocation. Should he sell his dreams and settle into a life decided by his daed? When it becomes unbearable for Miriam and Noah to be apart for a week at a stretch, it seems that Gott is opening a window where He had so recently closed a door. Would the window offer Miriam and Noah the opportunities they both longed for? Find out if Christmas miracles do come true, in this truly wonderful seasonal story at this special time of year.

    An Off the Grid lodge owner in Fish Lakes, Alaska, Tom enthralls roomfuls of guests every year from the Lower 48 and around the world with tales of his adventures, foibles, and SNAFUs in 44 years living in the Alaskan wilderness. From his start as a Pennsylvania farmboy who ran off to join the United States Air Force, to his arrival in Alaska with less than a hundred dollars in his wallet and a growing family in his back seat, to his forty years as a Bush pilot and his accidental introduction to the fishing lodge business, to his multiple brushes with death, hardship, and questionable characters, Tom Brion has a story to cover it all. A pioneer in sustainable homesteading and off-the-Grid living, Tom Brion built his first lodge in Alaska on five acres in the Lake Creek area, in 1979, and continues to this day building and working heavy machinery 60 miles from any road. Born in 1941, Tom has collected 74 years of humorous, heart-wrenching, and sometimes mind-blowing stories of traveling, hunting, and exploring the backcountry of Alaska in the pilot’s seat of a Vietnam-era Cessna Birddog. A biography in the form of short life stories, Tom Brion’s memoir takes us to a rural Bush life where people live off the land, drill their own wells, put out their own forest fires, and depend on their neighbors to pick up their mail. Surrounded by nature, Tom continues to fly, plow, run his bulldozer, and wrangle his subsistence fishwheel up the river every year in the Skwentna area of Alaska, where temperatures in winter drop to 45 below zero and summers can see entire months without rain. Follow him in this (mostly) nonfiction anthology of (somewhat) true stories from the Last Frontier as he gives the straight scoop about bears, outhouses, farming, flooding, fishing, moose, guns, and aviation in the 49th State.An avid hunter, outdoorsman, fisherman, and jack of all trades, Tom documents his life with photos and illustrations that detail an epic adventure from start to finish.

    Her life is finally falling into place as she moves into her new house, but a piece of her past comes back to surprise her. She discovers she is pregnant from a past college trisk, and now has to change her life. She never expected to be pregnant, and she never expected to fall in love with a sexy, billionaire, ER Doctor. Pete Walker is an older, hardened billionaire who knows what he wants—Tatiana. She fears she doesn’t have room in her life for a baby, and a new man; but her life has always been defined by the unexpected. This standalone story ends Happily Ever After. The story contains explicit love scenes and is intended for 18+ readers only! Get this book FREE with Kindle unlimited! A Steamy Romance Book + Bonus Stories!

    His neighbors have been a great help with his daughter Charlotte, but he can’t work and take care of her properly.The town matchmaker Emma Hilton has the perfect woman to help Bradley with his baby girl.Nanny Shannon Howell loves taking care of children, but she’d also like to find a husband. She’s eager to travel west in hopes of finding a family to call her own. Shannon is happy to help Bradley with baby Charlotte. Unfortunately, Shannon’s former employer is having problems letting her go.Will the man that traveled across the country drag her back to the east?Has Shannon found the place where she can be her true self with Bradley and Charlotte in Lubbock, Texas?Find out in the first book in a brand new series from Bestselling Mail Order Bride Authors Indiana Wake & Belle Fiffer

    

    These two stories are perhaps even better known as films (The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock and Don't Look Now by Nic Roeg), but here we bring you the full terrifying texts, superbly read by Peter Capaldi, who brings the true dimension of these works to the imagination.

    Authors include Robert Silverberg, Suzy McKee Charnas, Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, David J. Schow, Karl Edward Wagner, Kathe Koja, Elizabeth Massie, Barry N. Malzberg, Rick Wilbur, Thomas Ligotti, and many more.

    I didn’t have the short story consciously in mind when I wrote the book, which seemed to grow directly out of a fantasy of mine in which I took up burglary as as alternative to writing only to break into an apartment where a murder had recently taken place.It wasn’t until years later that I saw “A Bad Night for Burglars” as a precursor to the book and thus to the whole Bernie Rhodenbarr series. It seems obvious now, but I never really looked at the story once I’d finished it and sent it off to my agent. (He sent it to Fred Dannay, who took it as my first sale to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. Fred specialized in changing titles, rarely for the better; he changed this one to “Gentlemen’s Agreement,” which wouldn’t have been an improvement under any circumstances, but which was especially unfortunate given that Laura Z. Hobson’s bestselling novel, about genteel covert antisemitism, bore that title and was still very much alive in national memory. Ah well. I was able to restore the original title when I included the story in Enough Rope.The titular burglar who’s having a distinctly bad night doesn’t have a name, nor does he own a secondhand bookstore and hang out with a poodle-grooming lesbian. But it’s not hard to see the shadow of Bernie here. On the other hand, were Mrs. Rhodenbarr’s son Bernard to find himself in this particular mess, I’m sure he’d find a better way to Work Things Out…

    TuckerFeaturing Tales by:Nathan BallingrudAri BerkHolly BlackFrancesca Lia BlockPhil BrucatoStorm ConstantineCharles de LintBen DobynsAlexandra DuncanJaymi ElfordNeil GaimanLaurell K. HamiltonAlexandra Elizabeth HonigsbergElizabeth Jordan LeggettShira LipkinAngel Leigh McCoySeanan McGuireKris MilleringMaria NutickMidori SnyderS.J. TuckerCarrie VaughnCatherynne M. ValenteTerri WindlingErzebet YellowBoyWith Art and Illustrations by:Jenny AnckornTheodore BlackAmy BrownEcho ChernikHeather Keith FreemanJulia JeffreyStephanie Pui-Mun LawWendy Lyon MartinJames A. OwenBrian SymeChelsea WrightEdited by:Phil Brucato & Sandra BuskirkGraphic Design by:Sherry Lynne Baker

    For generations battle broke the once-proud kingdom of Galifar. As nation fought nation, adventure was never far away from those eager to find it.Hunters of evil, seekers of fortune, loyal soldiers, and those just trying to stay alive. These are their tales. The Tales of the Last War.

    A selection from Creature Comforts.