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What could be scarier than the first day of school? Take a crash course in the paranormal from editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner in An Apple for the Creature, featuring thirteen all-new tales out of school! Your schooldays are supposed to be the happiest days of your life - until you start thinking of your worst school nightmares: not knowing which is your classroom door, taking that maths test you never studied for, finding yourself naked in Assembly! But those fears will pale in comparison to these thirteen original stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms. You'll need more than an apple to stave off the creatures in these thirteen original spooky scholastic stories!

Charlaine Harris' smash-hit Sookie Stackhouse series may have reached its conclusion, but the world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, lives on in this all-new collection of 15 stories. Written by a killer lineup of authors, including New York Times best-sellers Rachel Caine, MaryJanice Davidson, Jonathan Maberry and Seanan McGuire, and with introductions read by Charlaine herself, Dead but Not Forgotten puts your favorite characters center stage.

Table of Contents:

• Nobody's business - Rachel Caine
• Tyger, tyger - Christopher Golden
• The real Santa Claus - Leigh Perry
• Taproot - Jeffrey J. Mariotte
• Knit a sweater out of sky - Seanan McGuire
• Love story - Jeanne C. Stein
• The million-dollar hunt - Jonathan Maberry
• Borderline dead - Nicole Peeler
• Extreme makeover vamp edition - Leigh Evans
• Don't be cruel - Bill Crider
• What a dream I had - Nancy Holder
• Another dead fairy - Miranda James
• The bat-signal - Suzanne McLeod
• The sun, the moon, and the stars - Dana Cameron
• Widower's walk - MaryJanice Davidson

Everyone plays something - whether it's solitaire or squash or stockcar racing, World of Warcraft or World Wrestling Entertainment tournaments, darts or dodgeball. Games bring out the best in us, the worst in us, the thing-we-never-expected in us. Human beings just naturally like to test their limits, both mental and physical - and why should the supernaturals be any different?

In their latest anthology international superstar Charlaine Harris and award-winning mystery writer Toni Kelner have collected stories that feature ghostly players, bloodthirsty interruptions, and competitions with deadly outcomes, from some of the top writers in the fantasy, horror, crime and mystery genres. Game on!

There's nothing like home renovation for finding skeletons in the closet. Now here's the perfect treat for any homeowner who's ever wondered, 'What's that creaking sound?' Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner return with an all-new collection, this time on the paranormal perils of Do-It-Yourself.

As well as a brand-new Sookie Stackhouse story there are 13 more cautionary tales of home renovation by bestselling authors Patricia Briggs, Heather Graham and Melissa Marr, amongst others. This is an outstanding line-up of frightening and funny fixer-upper tales guaranteed to shake the foundations.

• "If I Had a Hammer" by Charlaine Harris
• "Wizard Home Security" by Victor Gischler
• "Gray" by Patricia Briggs
• "Squatters' Rights" by Rochelle Krich
• "Blood on the Wall" by Heather Graham
• "The Mansion of Imperatives" by James Grady
• "The Strength Inside" by Melissa Marr
• "Woolsley's Kitchen Nightmare" by E. E. Knight
• "Through this House" by Seanan McGuire
• "The Path" by S. J. Rozan
• "Rick the Brave" Stacia Kane
• "Full-Scale Demolition" Suzanne McLeod
• "It's All in the Rendering" by Simon R. Green
• "In Brightest Day" by Toni L.P. Kelner