Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-60701-404-1
Despite the subtitle, Guran (The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons) has actually filled this anthology with adaptations of familiar tales. The stories include urban fantasy (“Warrior Dreams” by Cinda Williams Chima, with grindylows in Lake Erie),...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime, $19.95 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-1-60701-431-7
In Guran’s fifth edition of eclectic nightmares, new and veteran authors blend psychological terror and supernatural wonder into disturbing hybrid tales, which confront “that which we do not know.” Many of these stories first appeared in small-press
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Tanith Lee, Author Overlook Press $19.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-87951-481-5
Best known for the Flat Earth series, Lee creates here a characteristically surreal and dark fantasy, her fourth (following The Book of the Dead ) set in the ancient, decadent city of Paradys. This time, three interconnected narratives present three
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Tanith Lee. DAW, $16 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7564-1251-7
This collection of 19 stories, three never before published, showcases Lee’s unparalleled talent for recasting classic fairy tales as fables of modern relationships. “The Reason for Not Going to the Ball” is presented as a letter from Cinderella’s...
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Tanith Lee. Fantastic (fantasticbooks.biz), $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-62755-645-3
Lee (A Different City) died in May 2015, and this collection, containing eight previously published short stories and four originals, is the last work she assembled. Lee's decadent, Gothic-inflected pieces range from delicate fantasias about the...
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Tanith Lee. Aqueduct, $18 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-61976-031-8
Lee’s powerful science fiction collection assembles 12 tales published between 1979 and 2011, plus two originals. All of them showcase her strong, entertaining, and often gorgeous writing. “The Beautiful Biting Machine” packs an irresistible wallop...
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Tanith Lee, Author Tor Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86993-9
Horror and fantasy veteran Lee, author of such adult fairy tale collections as Red as Blood and Forests of the Night, offers an enticingly dark and seductive reworking of ""Snow White"" that echoes the macabre ambience of the Brothers Grimm. Drawing
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Tanith Lee, Author Tor Books $20.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-86265-7
Lavish, whimsical dreamscapes reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, though without Carroll's elegant subtlety, mark Lee's third Unicorn novel (after Gold Unicorn, 1994). Princess Tanaquil is a daughter of the sorceress Jaive, who all but ignores her in...
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Tanith Lee, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13956-8
The darkness that permeated the first two novels of Lee's Blood Opera Sequence (Dark Dance and Personal Darkness, both paperback originals) becomes nearly impenetrable in this third book of the Scarabae, an ancient vampire clan. The family diaspora...
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Tanith Lee, Author Arkham House Publishers $19.95 (507p) ISBN 978-0-87054-153-7
Lee has written in several subgenres of imaginative literaturescience fiction, horror, and Arabian Nights-type tales of dark kingdoms in which death and demons take human form and play havoc with mortal lives. She often writes with lyricism, an...
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Tanith Lee, Author Dutton Children's Books $16.99 (229p) ISBN 978-0-525-47162-2
Wolf Wing by Tanith Lee is the final installment in the four-book series. Claidi and Argul are finally married, but their lazy life in Peshamba is not all they expected. Argul misses his former life as leader of the Hulta and they both miss a...
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Tanith Lee, Author Dutton Books $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-525-46895-0
Fans of the Claidi Journals will welcome Wolf Queen by Tanith Lee. In the trilogy's final installment, Claidi's search for Argul leads her to a woman whom she thinks may be her mother. (May)
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Tanith Lee, Author . Overlook $25.95 (330p) ISBN 978-1-58567-261-5
This deliciously creepy third installment in Lee's Secret Books of Venus series (following Faces Under Water
and Saint Fire) deals with death and the question of whether humans have souls. Written from the perspective of Bartolome da Loura di...
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Tanith Lee, Author Dell Publishing Company $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21274-4
Rachaela Day is an emotionally distant bookshop clerk in present-day London. Abandoned before birth by her enigmatic father, Rachaela has lived alone since the death of her mother. She accepts a mysterious invitation to stay at the seaside house of...
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Tanith Lee, Author Taleka $24.95 (246p) ISBN 978-1-60762-043-3
Lush imagery, sensual language and erotic undertones age well in this reprinted classic-as complex, seductive, and daring now as when it first came out in 1978. The award-winning Lee (Tempting the Gods) weaves a colorful tapestry of words as she...
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Tanith Lee, Author Overlook Press $25.95 (316p) ISBN 978-1-58567-474-9
World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee brings her series about an alternative Venice, which began with Faces Under Water (1998), to a resounding close with Venus Preserved: The Secret Books of Venus: Book IV. A mysterious virus or worse threatens...
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Tanith Lee, Author Overlook Press $26.95 (335p) ISBN 978-1-58567-207-3
Set in a world resonant with the myths and legends of ancient Greece, Tanith Lee's latest fantasy, Mortal Suns, tells the tale of Sirai, a princess born with a terrible deformity-no feet. After a slow start, the story gathers momentum to reach an
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Tanith Lee, Author Overlook Press $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-87951-735-9
The second volume, after Faces Under The Water, in Lee's projected four-part ""Secret Books of Venus"" series is set in an alternate medieval Italy and dedicated to the alchemical element fire. Volpa is an innocent slave girl with the ability to...
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Tanith Lee, Author Overlook Press $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-87951-835-6
Lee (the Paradys series, etc.) throws more jeweled prose at the city of Venice than almost any writer since George Sand. People sleep under ""rose death sheets"" and roam in palazzi where the ceilings are painted with pictures of ""cloud blown Gods."
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Tanith Lee, Author Overlook Press $26.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-87951-672-7
A writer would seem to be the ideal protagonist of a historical novel, since writers are by nature obsessive, if not always reliable, observers and chroniclers of their times. Prolific writer Lee (The Book of the Mad) has chosen Camille Desmoulins,...
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Tanith Lee, Author Overlook Press $19.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-87951-440-2
The ambience of fin de siecle France imbues these eight gothic tales in the third volume in Lee's Secret Books of Paradys tetralogy, tracing the tortured lives once led by those buried in the crypts and cemeteries of the mythical (or forgotten) city
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Tanith Lee, Norilana (www.norilana.com), $28.95 (456p) ISBN 9781607620693; $15.95 trade paper ISBN 9781607620709
Strange and wonderful, mythic and erotic, the second in Lee's acclaimed Tales from the Flat Earth (originally released in 1979) is every bit as fantastical as the first, Night's Master. Love and death are intricately intertwined with sex and...
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Tanith Lee, Author, Derek Jarman, Author Overlook Press $13.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87951-697-0
This fourth and final installment of filmmaker Jarman's journals is as forthright as the earlier ones (At Your Own Risk, Dancing Ledge and Modern Nature). Although at times the nitty-gritty details of filmmaking overwhelm (Jarman began work on The...
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Tanith Lee, Author, Heather Cooper, Illustrator Atheneum Books $16 (138p) ISBN 978-0-689-31575-6
Tanaquil, whose only talent is the ability to fix things, lives in the isolated desert palace of her mother, the sorceress Jaive. When an inquisitive peeve--one of the palace pets--unearths a cache of strange, sparkling bones, Tanaquil uses them to...
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Tanith Lee, Author, Lee Tanith, Author Dell Publishing Company $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-21470-0
As World Fantasy Award-winning author Lee ( Dark Dance ) imagines Scarabae, they are men and women of elegance and dark mystery, seductive creatures of few words and many secrets. Among them and yet set apart are Rachaela and her daughter Ruth, each
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