Theodora Goss. Quirk, $16.95 (82p) ISBN 978-1-59474-551-5
Evelyn Morgan is a university student struggling to lead her own life despite others' expectations; Brendan Thorne's troubles begin when he loses his wife to heart failure and subsequently quits his job. A chance meeting leads to their falling in...
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Theodora Goss. Saga, $24.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6650-9
World Fantasy Award–winner Goss’s debut novel, richly reworking a short story (published in Strange Horizons in 2010) with influences as diverse as The Castle of Otranto and Mystery Science Theater 3000, brings her gothic-inflected fantasies roaring
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Theodora Goss. Saga, $26.99 (720p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6653-0
Goss’s The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, an exuberant, intelligent reimagining of sensational Victorian fiction, was eminently satisfying but dangled more loose threads than a housekeeper’s mending basket; Goss makes good with this...
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Theodora Goss. Saga, $24.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5344-2787-7
Goss wraps up her gaslamp fantasy adventure trilogy with a novel more political than personal. Mary Jekyll and her found family of the Athena Club return from their Continental deeds of derring-do, fatigued and anxious. Three of their circle who...
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Theodora Goss. Mythic Delirium, $45.95 (484p) ISBN 978-1-73264-407-6
This vibrant collection brings together World Fantasy Award winner Goss’s exquisite interpretations of and variations on familiar folk and fairy tales. The 48 poems and 25 stories span the length of Goss’s career, from her first published story (“The
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Theodora Goss. Mythic Delirium, $15.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-73264-400-7
This lush collection artfully gathers together many of World Fantasy Award winner Goss’s fairy tale–themed poems and short fiction published over the last 16 years, including her Locus-nominated story “Red as Blood and White as Bone.” As a Hungarian-
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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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Theodora Goss, Author, Josh Becker, Author, Bruce Campbell, Introduction by . Prime $24.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-8095-5691-5
Goss's collection of 16 gothic stories possesses a spare, surprising beauty, though her modern-day characters, like those in fairy tales, are constrained by the hard lessons she sets out to teach. The three linked stories, "Miss Emily Gray,&#
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Edited by Jonathan Strahan. Solaris, $18.99 trade paper (420p) ISBN 978-1-78618-509-9
The 16 stories in this star-studded anthology, all but two original to this volume, inventively explore the science fictional possibilities of the time-travel romance. Strahan (The Book of Dragons) assembles a stellar lineup of talents who work...
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