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Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
| Author: | Ellen Datlow |
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St. Martin's Griffin, 2011 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher's "Curses" Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs' "Fairy Gifts," a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr's "Guns for the Dead," the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black's "Noble Rot," a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own.
Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection is not to be missed!
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Ellen Datlow
- Curses - shortfiction by Jim Butcher
- How the Pooka Came to New York City - shortfiction by Delia Sherman
- On the Slide - novelette by Richard Bowes
- The Duke of Riverside - shortstory by Ellen Kushner
- Oblivion by Calvin Klein - shortfiction by Christopher Fowler
- Fairy Gifts - novelette by Patricia Briggs
- Picking up the Pieces - shortfiction by Pat Cadigan
- Underbridge - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
- Priced to Sell - shortfiction by Naomi Novik
- The Bricks of Gelecek - shortstory by Matthew Kressel
- Weston Walks - shortfiction by Kit Reed
- The Projected Girl - shortfiction by Lavie Tidhar
- The Way Station - novelette by Nathan Ballingrud
- Guns for the Dead - shortstory by Melissa Marr
- And Go Like This - shortstory by John Crowley
- Noble Rot - shortfiction by Holly Black
- Daddy Long Legs of the Evening - shortstory by Jeffrey Ford
- The Skinny Girl - shortfiction by Lucius Shepard
- The Colliers' Venus (1893) - novelette by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree - shortfiction by Elizabeth Bear
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