Some Girls Bite: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel
ISBN13: 9780451226259 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFirst in a brand new series about a Chicago graduate student’s introduction into a society of vampires.Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it was Merit’s. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he [...]
Fantasy: The Liberation of Imagination
Product DescriptionIn this book in the Genres in Context series, Richard Matthews examines beloved fantasy authors from Europe and the Unites States, including J. R. R. Tolkien, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Morris and Robert E. Howard. This fantastic introductory guide includes an overview of the evolution and history of the genre, a chronology of [...]
The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN13: 9780312875572 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionRobert A. Heinlein, the dean of American SF writers, also wrote fantasy fiction throughout his long career, but especially in the early 1940s. The Golden Age of SF was also a time of revolution in fantasy fiction, and Heinlein was at the [...]
The Writer’s Guide to Fantasy Literature: From Dragons Lair to Hero Quest
Product DescriptionThe Writer’s Guide to Fantasy Literature offers an overview of the main styles of fantasy, with scores of practical tips and techniques, along with examples of great fantasy writing from today’s best mythic-fiction writers. This thoughtful guide will help you navigate your way from dragon’s lair to hero’s quest—on your personal path to success! [...]
Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion New Accents Library Collection
Product Description“Dr Jackson has written a wide-ranging and frequently stimulating introduction to the subject of fantasy in modern literature.”–Times Literary Supplement… More >> Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion New Accents Library Collection
Darkness & Dawn Volume 1 – The Vacant World
Product DescriptionThe Pioneering Novel of New York After the Fall – New York City – the end of the 3rd millennium. Monumental buildings in ruins. Central Park a jungle peopled by savage sub-humans. A huge black shape moving across the night sky occluding the stars. Civilization has vanished along with humankind. Into this hostile new [...]
Different Kinds of Darkness
Product DescriptionA major fiction collection from multiple Hugo Award winner David Langford, Different Kinds of Darkness complements his parody assortment He Do the Time Police in Different Voices. Besides the acclaimed, Hugo-winning title piece and its influential prequels, the 36 stories include the British SF Association Award winner “Cube Root”, and eight “Year’s Best” and [...]
Jenséa, an Angel’s Touch: Into the World of Johnny
Product DescriptionEnter the world of johnny in this fascinating mix of dark fantasy, horror, romance, and science fiction in Book Two of the Chaos Dragon Series. Jump into the next adventure with johnny and Jenséa in a complex multi-layered plot that encompasses the brightest and darkest realms of existence. johnny, who is of the dragon, [...]
On Blue’s Waters: Volume One of ‘The Book of the Short Sun’
ISBN13: 9780312872571 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionOn Blue’s Waters is the start of a major new work by Gene Wolfe, the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, which takes place in the years after Wolfe’s four-volume Book of the Long Sun. Horn, [...]
The Lies of Locke Lamora
ISBN13: 9780553588941 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city pulsing with the lives of decadent nobles and daring thieves, here is a story of [...]
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy
Product Description“A superb collection, a splendid and much-needed book. Anderson has cleared away the dross and shown us the golden roots of fantasy before it became a genre.”–Michael Moorcock, author of The Eternal Champion Many of today’s top names in fantasy acknowledge J.R.R. Tolkien as the author whose work inspired them to create their own [...]
Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Edition
Product DescriptionFor more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the [...]
Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within
Product Description Earth, 2065 A.D.: Destruction and confusion are everywhere. Cities are deserted, the population is decimated, and the few humans who remain struggle to survive against an insidious alien presence that is consuming the very life energy of this wounded world. The presence is spreading across the planet, infecting everything in its path, killing [...]
Raphael
Product DescriptionMalibu, California-home to rock-and-roll gods and movie stars, the beautiful, the rich . . . and vampires. Powerful and charismatic, Raphael is a Vampire Lord, one of the few who hold the power of life and death over every vampire in existence. Thousands call him Master and have pledged absolute loyalty on their very [...]
Feather
Product Description*This is the limited release UNEDITED author’s copy of Feather. For an edited edition, please search Abra Ebner and purchase the Second Edition, edited and extended* Estella s magical life as an orphan was never easy, and at eighteen, she is finally free. In her desperate attempt to leave the city behind and unravel [...]
The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories
Product DescriptionAn anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures–the Devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons–that have long been a part of the [...]
Rhetorics of Fantasy
ISBN13: 9780819568687 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionTranscending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Utilizing nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn uses this system to explore how fiction writers construct their [...]
Best Horror of the Year 1
Product DescriptionAn Air Force Loadmaster is menaced by strange sounds within his cargo; a man is asked to track down a childhood friend… who died years earlier; doomed pioneers forge a path westward as a young mother discovers her true nature; an alcoholic strikes a dangerous bargain with a gregarious stranger; urban explorers delve into [...]
Within The Shadow Of Stone
Product DescriptionSheri L. McGathy, the author of such stories as The Ancient One and Thief of Dreams presents her latest fantasy novel: Within the Shadow of Stone, a journey through legend and myth to the time of the standing stones. To a world where warriors are bound to the silent megaliths and the Shroud Born [...]
The Dragon Book: Magical Tales from the Masters of Modern Fantasy
ISBN13: 9780441017645 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionNever before published stories by New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Stroud, Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix, Diana Gabaldon, and others. Whether portrayed as fire-breathing reptilian beasts at war with humanity or as noble creatures capable of speech and mystically bonded to the [...]
The Mark of the Vampire Queen
ISBN13: 9780425219324 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionFull servant. With his new title, Jacob must attend to Lady Lyssa’s every need, venturing into a world of passion darker than he’s ever known. As a vampire hunter he wasn’t prepared to embrace a world where humans are sexual commodities, but [...]
Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie
Product DescriptionFor one man, football is more than just a fantasy…As seen on ESPN’s Cold PizzaFantasy football — one of America’s most popular, and profitable, virtual pastimes — became a way of life for sports humorist and author Mark St. Amant. Utterly fed up with never having won his league championship, St. Amant abandoned a [...]
Wicked Fantasy
ISBN13: 9780425209950 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionIn an adult theme park, the Castle of Dark Dreams is home to three extraordinary brothers who promise ultimate fulfillment for any woman bold enough to accept their sensual challenge… Living under a goddess’s curse, Conall O’Rourke must “serve and protect” his [...]