Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (prime-
books.com), $16.95 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-1-60701-450-8
From the seemingly bottomless reservoir of Lovecraftian pastiches and homages, Guran (New Cthulhu) has sieved 19 above-average reprints, all published between 2010 and 2014, and most tailoring their terrors to contemporary times. The monstrous...
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Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear. Tor, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2470-2
Bear and Monette follow 2007's Companion to Wolves with another tale of the frozen northern lands of Iskryne inhabited by Wolfcarls and their telepathically bonded trellwolves. When wolves mate, so do their humans—leaving thoroughly heterosexual...
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Sarah Monette, Author . Ace $24.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-441-01286-2
Set in the wondrous city of Mélusine, Monette's extraordinary first fantasy novel focuses on two captivating characters from two very different worlds: Felix Harrowgate, a powerful magician at the court of Lord Steven Teverius, and...
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Sarah Monette, Author . Ace $24.95 (439p) ISBN 978-0-441-01404-0
At the start of Monette's wonderful follow-up to her extraordinary fantasy debut, Mélusine
(2005), wizard Felix Harrowgate and his gutter-rat brother, Mildmay the Fox, assassin and cat burglar, are making their way through hostile...
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Sarah Monette, Author . Ace $24.95 (426p) ISBN 978-0-441-01500-9
Monette continues the fantastic saga begun in Mélusine
and The Virtu
with virtuoso narratives of theatrical, political and magical intrigues. Within the walled city of Mélusine, destabilized by unsolved murders and the lack of a...
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Sarah Monette, Author . Prime $12.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-8095-5777-6
Writing in the tradition of M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood, Monette reconstructs the traditional English ghost story—insinuated horror, no gratuitous sex or violence—with a decidedly modern-day approach in this laudable collection of...
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Sarah Monette, Author Ace $24.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-441-01596-2
The rambling conclusion to Monette's Mélusine fantasy quartet (after 2008's The Mirador
) reveals the destiny of three exiles. Prince Gerrard Hume dies in an attempt to start the sinister Cymellunar engine, which he hoped would help
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Sarah Monette. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $14.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-60701-305-1
Monette’s lyrical tales vacillate between despair and hope in this powerful collection. The 25 short stories touch on such weighty topics as the substantial consequences of saving the world, or how ghosts eventually out their killers with...
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Sarah Monette, Author, Elizabeth Bear, Author . Tor $24.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1816-9
Rising fantasy stars Monette (Mélusine
) and Bear (Whiskey & Water
) subvert the telepathic animal companion subgenre so thoroughly that it may never be the same. The inhabitants of a cold and perilous world grounded in Norse/Germanic...
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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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