In der dunkelsten Stunde ihrer Not erfindet eine junge Frau das Geschichtenerzählen neu und überlistet damit den Tod selbst. Als Scheherezade dem grausamen König zur Frau gegeben wird, weiß sie um sein schreckliches Gesetz: Jede seiner Bräute wird am Morgen nach der Hochzeitsnacht hingerichtet. Doch die kluge Tochter des Wesirs hat einen Plan: Sie beginnt, ihm Märchen aus tausendundeiner Nacht zu erzählen und bricht jeden Morgen an der spannendsten...

Shapeshifting stories by Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Midori Snyder, Jane Yolen, and others: "Rich reading that meets the editors' high standards." -Kirkus Reviews In world mythology, transformation legends are attached to almost every type of animal: a variety of birds, fish, reptiles, and even insects. In this book, you'll find stories inspired by such myths from around the world, retold and reimagined by some of the very best writers in the...

Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages' wisdom, and winged weapons of war... Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today's most popular authors, including Peter Beagle, Holly Black, Orson Scott Card, Charles De Lint, Diana Wynne Jones, Mercedes Lackey, Ursula K Le Guin, Dean R Koontz,...

In this collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime stories-and give you something entirely new to trouble your dreams. A boy is haunted through adulthood by a soul-eating creature that lies forever in wait under Neil Gaiman's "Troll Bridge"; a melancholy amphibian shares his most private fantasies with a therapist in Gahan Wilson's "The Frog Prince"; in Tanith Lee's "Snow-Drop,"...

Fantasy and Mystery by AAVV 10 Authors measure themselves against the great Mysteries of our History. Fantamisteri, Fantastic Mysteries, Fantasy and Mystery ... many different ways (even if we recognized ourselves more in the first one) to define this collection of stories, written by ten different authors, who wanted to try to investigate the Mystery and the Fantastic, ranging from History to Fantasy, from the Yellow that is tinged with Horror...

Folklore, fairy tales and legends from Central Africa. Like all human cultures, African folklore and religion represents a variety of social facets of the various cultures in Africa. These particular folktales are from Central African regions such as Uganda and the Congo, and they play an important role in many of these Central African cultures. Stories reflect a group's cultural identity, and preserving the stories of Africa helps to preserve many...

Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most...

Award-winning editor Paula Guran presents a diverse reprint anthology collecting classic myths and legends, retold by today's top fantasy writers. The Native American trickster Coyote . . . the snake-haired Greek Gorgon Medusa, whose gaze turned men to stone . . . Kaggen, creator of the San peoples of Africa . . . the Holy Grail of Arthurian legend . . . Freyja, the Norse goddess of love and beauty . . . Ys, the mythical sunken city once built...

Recife é a cidade com a maior megalomania em linha reta do planeta. Quiçá, do universo. Ao mesmo tempo é o local provinciano, fincado em raízes e costumes do passado, mas que tem uma aura de pós-contemporânea. Seria pretensão demais querer descrever o recifense em algumas páginas, mas temos essa "góga" no sangue, decidimos escrever A Maior Cidade Pequena do Mundo em Linha Reta para contar, através de 11 contos, histórias que se passam...

And you thought Hell was weird . . . Longtime contributor to the Hellboy mythos Christopher Golden brings together a crew of luminaries including Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba HoTep) and China Miéville (King Rat), cross genre sensation Barbara Hambly (The Windrose Chronicles), celebrated mystery writer Ken Bruen (The Dramatist), bestselling science fiction and fantasy novelist Tad Williams (Otherland), and a bevy of other skilled storytellers eager to spin...