Charles de Lint, Author . Tor $27.95 (508p) ISBN 978-0-312-87397-4
Life is truly an act of magic in Canadian author de Lint's triumphant return to Newford, his fictitious North American city, with its fascinating blend of urban faerie and dreamworld adventures. When Jilly Coppercorn becomes a victim of a hit-and
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Charles de Lint, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86518-4
With this collection of 22 stories--including three new tales and four that previously appeared only as limited-edition chapbooks--de Lint returns to the magic-steeped streets of Newford, the setting for his acclaimed novels Memory & Dream, Trader...
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Charles de Lint, Author Tor Books $24.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-312-85847-6
A master of urban fantasy returns with one of his finest works. One morning, a quiet, responsible luthier (guitar-maker), Leonard Trader, wakes up in the body of charming ne'er-do-well Johnny Devlin. At the same time, Devlin takes over Trader's body.
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Charles de Lint, Author Tor Books $21.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-312-85573-4
This fanciful and moving collection of 15 tales, some loosely related with common characters, probes deeply into the nature of art and artists and the souls of the poor and downtrodden. In the fictional city of Newford, a touch of enchantment can...
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Charles de Lint, Author Tor Books $22.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-85572-7
The Otherworld tends to lurk just out of sight in DeLint's (Moonheart; Spiritwalk) works, waiting for some chink to appear in the facade of his characters' lives and allow its spirits entry. This latest work is no exception; here fantastic creatures
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Charles de Lint, Author Tor Books $19.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-312-08087-7
De Lint's ( Spiritwalk ) latest is like an old car on a cold morning--slow to start. The first third of the book follows Angharad--tinker, harper and witch--as she travels through the Green Isles seeking to awaken the inherited magic (``Summerblood''
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Charles de Lint, Author Tor Books $22.95 (414p) ISBN 978-0-312-85205-4
This collection of conceptually innovative, thematically simple stories proves again that de Lint ( Spiritwalk ) is a leading talent in the urban fantasy subgenre, which seeks to unite the escapist whimsy of fantasy with the hard edge of cyberpunk...
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Charles de Lint, Author Tor Books $20.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-312-85204-7
In this sequel to Moonheart , de Lint revisits Tamson House, the sprawling Ottawa edifice that is a reservoir of psychic power and a gateway to many spirit worlds, particularly those of Native American and Celtic mythology. The house is occupied by...
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Charles de Lint, Author William Morrow & Company $12.95 (630p) ISBN 978-0-688-10366-8
A book that could provide its possessor with ultimate power; a Cornish family that has kept the volume hidden for decades; a secret society out to obtain it at any cost; a psychopathic killer; two or possibly three alternate worlds; and a love story
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Charles de Lint, Author Ace Books $16.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-441-37969-9
In his eighth fantasy novel, the author of Moonheart and Yarrow turns the stories of ""Jack the Giant Killer'' and ``Jack and the Bean Stalk'' into a contemporary tale set in Ottawa. Jacky Rowan's boyfriend of three months has just dumped her...
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Charles de Lint, Author Tor Books $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-86519-1
Irish fairies, Native American shape-changers and Africa's Anansi the Spider all meet up as de Lint (The Buffalo Man) weaves a new tale of urban magic, in which a diverse cast of characters learns that all the oldest myths are true. This comes as no
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Charles de Lint, Author . Tor $25.99 (350p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2340-8
This collection of 13 stories is the fifth set in Newford, de Lint's city of artists, musicians and magic, and the first since 2002's Tapping the Dream Tree
. Interspersing time travel (“Riding Shotgun,” “That Was Radio...
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Charles de Lint, Author . Subterranean $35 (348p) ISBN 978-1-59606-282-5
World Fantasy Award–winner de Lint dusts off an enchanting epic fantasy written in 1980 but never published. Magic is fading throughout the Green Isles and the evil Icelord sees an opportunity to impose his will on all who dwell there. A small
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Charles de Lint, Author . Tor $24.95 (269p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1756-8
Prolific Canadian fantasist de Lint, recently focused on YA (Dingo
), returns to adult fiction with a supernatural love story set in the American Southwest and an odd afterlife. Following her death, auto restorer Altagracia “Grace”...
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Charles de Lint, Author . Subterranean $40 (295p) ISBN 978-1-59606-229-0
Completing Subterranean's series of urban fantasist de Lint's early stories, this collection comprises 17 tales inspired by the quirky high fantasies that dominated before the Tolkien tidal wave. In brocaded prose, bejeweled and stiff (R
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Charles de Lint, Author . Viking $17.99 (271p) ISBN 978-0-670-06144-0
Oh, crap, don't swat me.” Those are the first words spoken by Elizabeth, a six-inch-tall, sarcastic “Little,” upon meeting 14-year-old T.J., a soft-spoken goody-two-shoes. T.J. feels depressed because she has to give up her...
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Charles de Lint, Author . Subterranean $35 (175p) ISBN 978-1-59606-126-2
After a childhood of abuse and drug addiction, Jilly Coppercorn, last seen in de Lint’s Widdershins
(2006), is well on her way to being “normal” as an art school student when she runs into Donna Birch, her only friend from the bad
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Charles de Lint, Author . Tor $27.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1285-3
This pleasing addition to the popular Newford saga (The Onion Girl
, etc.) brings series characters Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell together in a romantic relationship that's anything but simple. In de Lint's magic-realist universe, a...
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Charles de Lint, Author . Subterranean $40 (178p) ISBN 978-1-59606-055-5
Acclaimed Canadian fantasy writer De Lint offers this much more polished follow-up to Triskell Tales
(2003) as an uplifting antidote to the real world, which is "turning into a darker and stranger place." Set in the bohemian Lower Crowsea...
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Charles de Lint, Author . Viking $19.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-05924-9
De Lint (Moonheart
) tackles magic and the afterlife in a suburban high school setting in this inventive if somewhat convoluted tale. Imogene Yeck is new to Redding High, and with her piercings and goth clothes, she immediately gets branded ("Yuc
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Charles de Lint, Author . Subterranean $40 (357p) ISBN 978-1-59606-003-6
The second installment of Canadian author de Lint's collected early stories opens powerfully with haunting tales from his contemporary and dark fantasy period. "The Soft Whisper of Midnight Snow," "Scars," "We Are Dead...
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Charles de Lint, Author . Penguin/Firebird $11.99 (213p) ISBN 978-0-14-240816-2
World Fantasy Award winner de Lint (The Blue Girl
), known for sophisticated urban fantasies that incorporate Celtic and Native American myths, branches out to include Australian folklore with this tale of Miguel Schreiber, a teenager who discovers...
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Charles de Lint, Author . Tor $27.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-87398-1
Canadian author De Lint follows up 2001's triumphant The Onion Girl
with another fine novel dually based in the fictitious city of Newford and a magical otherworld, where spirits of faerie and folklore occupy modern technology and cyberspace is
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Charles de Lint, Author . Subterranean $40 (325p) ISBN 978-1-931081-73-3
This collection of early tales, some of them unpublished, is essential reading for fans of World Fantasy Award-winner de Lint (The Onion Girl). The six Aynber and Thorn yarns that open the volume ("Wizard's Bounty," etc.) are chock full...
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Charles de Lint, Author . Tor $26.96 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-87401-8
When de Lint's magic is working, his characters shine with folksy charisma (The Onion Girl; Moonheart), but a preponderance of the 18 stories in this collection have the familiar denizens of fictional Newfordwandering passively through their own
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Charles de Lint, Author . Subterranean $35 (200p) ISBN 978-1-931081-33-7
"Course there's spirits in the hills. How could there not be?" muses Aunt Lillian, the backwoods wise woman whose interaction with bee fairies and 'sangmen (tiny ginseng root fairies) sets up the connection the wild red-haired...
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Charles de Lint, Author . Subterranean $40 (190p) ISBN 978-1-892284-91-4
Though known primarily as a fantasy writer, de Lint (Forests of the Heart; Moolight and Vines; Greenmantle; etc.) once got the bug to write a hard-boiled mystery, in which tough guy P.I. Jevon Swann works the mean streets of Ottawa in 1985—a...
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Charles de Lint, Author, Charles Vess, Editor, Terri Windling, Preface by Viking Children's Books $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-670-03584-7
Urban teens take center stage in a pair of edgy short story collections. Waifs and Strays presents 15 previously published works by Canadian fantasy writer Charles de Lint, including ""May This Be Your Last Sorrow"" from The Essential Bordertown...
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Edited by Gordon Van Gelder. Tachyon (IPG, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-61696-163-3
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—aka F&SF—has been one of the flagships of speculative fiction since its founding in 1949. While similarly lauded magazines, like Galaxy, Galileo, and If, have fallen by the wayside, F&SF steadfastly soldiers
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Charles de Lint, Author, Charles Vess, Illustrator Viking Books $16.99 (42p) ISBN 978-0-670-03647-9
Charles de Lint and Charles Vess team up for the second time in A Circle of Cats, the prequel to the novella Seven Wild Sisters. Free-spirited orphan Lillian roams the wild woods until a poisonous snake bites her. To save her life, the cats turn...
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Charles de Lint, illus. by Charles Vess. Little, Brown, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-05357-0
In this enchanting expansion of De Lint and Vess’s 2003 picture book, A Circle of Cats, the duo tells the story of Lillian Kindred, a spirited orphan living on a farm at the edge of a forest with her beloved aunt. While exploring, Lillian is bitten...
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Charles de Lint. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (96p) ISBN 978-1-59606-641-0
Renowned urban fantasist de Lint (the Newford series) fumbles this attempt to bring Robin Hood into the barrio. Desperate to save her neighborhood from drug cartels, Luz Chaidez summons a legendary hero: Jack Green, red-haired archer from forests of
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Charles de Lint, illus. by Charles Vess. Little, Brown, $18 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-05356-3
In this lovely sequel to The Cats of Tanglewood Forest, the earlier story's heroine, Lillian, now elderly, still lives in a simple house in a secluded hollow, up in the hills. Strong-willed Sarah Jane lives with her mother and six feisty sisters in...
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Charles de Lint, Author, Charles Vess, Illustrator , illustrated by Charles Vess. Subterranean $35 (206p) ISBN 978-1-931081-96-2
Canadian author De Lint and illustrator Vess make good medicine in this whimsical collaboration of words and images starring those rambunctious red-haired Dillard twins, Laurel and Bess, mentioned in 2002's Seven Wild Sisters
and now stage...
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Charles de Lint, Author, Samuel M. Key, Author (writing as Samuel M. Key). Orb $14.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0434-6
In this reissue of the versatile de Lint's (The Onion Girl) second "Samuel M. Key" novel, a darker take on his typically upbeat urban fantasies, a serial killer with a supernatural pedigree upsets the peaceful order of the city of...
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Edited by Greg Ketter. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $15.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-60701-358-7
Ketter’s collection of fantasy stories celebrating bookstores, first published in 2002, begins with an introduction by Neil Gaiman and contains 15 original stories plus Harlan Ellison’s “The Cheese Stands Alone.” The stories aren’t spectacular, but...
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