Urban fantasy

'An intoxicating mix of weird magic and high adventure .

Finn's re-adaptation to the human world is not going so well.

A self-proclaimed psychic investigates a deadly plague that creates talking corpses in this chilling horror novel by the author of Blind Panic.

In this urban fantasy, a sword-wielding female blacksmith goes up against mythical and supernatural creatures in epic, action-filled battles.

Band 2 des düsteren Prinzessinnenromans…**Tritt ein durch das Tor der Hölle**Seit Lucia und Fero ihr menschliches Dasein hinter sich gelassen haben und gemeinsam in die Unterwelt hinabgestiegen sind, sieht die Höllenprinzessin die Welt mit ganz anderen Augen.

A WATERSTONES BEST ROMANTASY PICK OF 2024__________________'A sparkling modern fairytale.

As the title suggests this collection holds fifty-one of the kind of stories that helped make Lord Dunsany a fantasy legend.

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

It was a cold winter's evening late in the Stone Age; the sun had gone down blazing over the plains of Thold; there were no clouds, only the chill blue sky and the imminence of stars; and the surface of the sleeping Earth began to harden against the cold of the night.

I do not know where I may be when this preface is read.

Once when the gods were young and only Their swarthy servant Time was without age, the gods lay sleeping by a broad river upon earth.

"e;In the mists before THE BEGINNING, Fate and Chance cast lots to decide whose the Game should be; and he that won strode through the mists to MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI and said: "e;Now make gods for Me, for I have won the cast and the Game is to be Mine.

Collected here in this giant omnibus edition are twelve of Lord Dunsany's greatest books including 'The Gods of Pegana', 'Time and the Gods', 'The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories', 'A Dreamer's Tales', 'The Book of Wonder', 'Fifty-One Tales', 'The Last Book of Wonder', 'Tales of Three Hemispheres', 'Tales of War', 'Unhappy Far-Off Things', 'Plays of Gods and Men', 'Don Rodriguez Chronicles of Shadow Valley'.

Original Short Story: Chocolateland by Shariann Lewitt -When they wanted to eat, to really enjoy a good pig out, they could go to Chocolateland Short Story:Sleepers by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam -Where did they come from?

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Hugo and Wold Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine, brings you the very best in science fiction and fantasy.

Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, edited by Hugo and Wold Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine, brings you the very best in science fiction and fantasy.

A mythical demon and its ancient fortress are resurrected after the theft of a sacred dagger, and Conan is tricked into landing on the island, with many unexpected consequences in store.

Conan becomes a notorious pirate and plunders coastal villages alongside a head-strong femme fatale, after she spares him his life.

After rescuing a beautiful maiden, Conan escapes to a remote island where he encounters a skulking creature and mysterious iron statues, and is captured by pirates.

The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow.

Conan becomes the captain of a pirate vessel and encounters a remote island with a mysterious pool that has powers of transmutation.

Conan receives more attention than he needs in this wild adventure that nearly costs him his life.

Conan infiltrates a perilous tower in the City of Thieves in order to steal a fabled gem from an evil sorcerer.

Conan and his army walk into a bloody, treacherous trap, and Conan is condemned to a wizard's frightening dungeon, where he forges an improbable alliance with a former enemy.

Things are not going well for Conan after murdering King Numedides to seize the bloody crown of Aquilonia.

A powerful wizard is awoken-with dreams of world domination-from his three-thousand year sleep.

Conan has claimed the throne of Aquilonia, but now he must defend it from rival armies and sorcery most vile.

Cannibalism was not tolerated openly in Zamboula.

Conan kidnaps a princess and foils a nefarious plot of world domination in this action-packed adventure.

In this exciting story Conan is a mercenary soldier searching for the the treasure of a lost city.

'Every century a witch shall be born.

The Hyborian Age is an essay by Robert E.

In what many consider to be the best Conan story written by Robert E.

In the last of the Conan stories to be published, there is no end to the action and adventure.

Those clever ones are the beggars to make a muddle.

A crown should not be worn upon the head.

I have poured out dark wine to them, I have offered them fat, indeed, I have often offered them savoury things.

Men laugh at the gods; they often laugh at the gods.

And though I had seen him go forth with his terrific spear, and mighty elephant-hunter though he was, yet his was a fearful quest for I knew that it was none other than to avenge Perdondaris by slaying that monster with the single tusk who had overthrown it suddenly in a day.

And so I came to be directed to the shop of a dreamer who lives not far from the Embankment in the City.

Beyond the fields we know, in the Lands of Dream, lies the Valley of the Yann where the mighty river of that name, rising in the Hills of Hap, idleing its way by massive dream-evoking amethyst cliffs, orchid-laden forests, and ancient mysterious cities, comes to the Gates of Yann and passes to the sea.

"e;They offer you three jokes,"e; said the stranger, "e;which shall make all who hear them simply die of laughter.

Sylvia, Queen of the Woods, in her woodland palace, held court, and made a mockery of her suitors.

And the diviner rose up, stroking his grey beard, and spake guardedly-"e;There are certain events,"e; he said, "e;upon the ways of Fate that are veiled even from a diviner's eyes, and many more are clear to us that were better veiled from all; much I know that is better unforetold, and some things that I may not foretell on pain of centuries of punishment.

So I came down through the wood on the bank of Yann and found, as had been prophesied, the ship Bird of the River about to loose her cable.

Toldees, Mondath, Arizim, these are the Inner Lands, the lands whose sentinels upon their borders do not behold the sea.

The Wild Things are somewhat human in appearance, only all brown of skin and barely two feet high.

Thus passed away in the hour of her iniquities before Annolith, in the two thousand and thirty-second year of her being, in the six thousand and fiftieth year of the building of the World, Babbulkund, City of Marvel, sometime called by those that hated her City of the Dog, but hourly mourned in Araby and Ind and wide through jungle and desert; leaving no memorial in stone to show that she had been, but remembered with an abiding love, in spite of the anger of God, by all that knew her beauty, whereof still they sing.