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This short story originally appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, #1 October 2006. It can an also be found in the anthology Realms: The First Year of Clarkesworld Magazine (2007), edited by Sean Wallace and Nick Mamatas. The story is included in the collection Somewhere Beneath Those Waves (2011).

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This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, January 2012. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2013, edited by Paula Guran.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, December 2017.

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Monette's diverse collection delves deeply into the mythic and reaches far beyond everyday reality. Readers cannot resist journeying with her into realms--dangerously dark or illuminatingly revelatory--they could never imagine without her as their guide. From ghost stories in the tradition of M. R. James to darkly poetic tales to moving fictional examinations of the most basic of human emotion--fear, love, hate, loneliness--Monette's pen produces stories that are invariably unforgettable...

Table of Contents

• Draco campestris
• Queen of Swords
• Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day
• Under the Beansidhe's Pillow
• The Watcher in the Corners
• The Half-Sister
• Ashes, Ashes
• Sidhe Tigers
• A Light in Troy (selected for Best New Romantic Fantasy 2006)
• Amante Dorée
• Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home
• Darkness, as a Bride
• Katabasis: Seraphic Trains
• Fiddleback Ferns
• Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland (Spectrum Award Winner)
• Night Train: Heading West. (selected for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIX)
• The Séance at Chisholm End
• No Man's Land
• National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West
• A Night in Electric Squidland.
• Impostors
• Straw
• Absent from Felicity
• The World Without Sleep
• After the Dragon

This flash fiction piece originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue Five, July-August 2015.

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This short story originally appeared in Aeon Seven, May 2006. It an also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007), edited by Gardner Dozois, and Time Travel: Recent Trips (2014), edited by Paula Guran.

This novella was first published in Uncanny Magazine, September/October 2023.

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This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 21, March-April 2018.

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This short story originally appeare in the anthology Fast Ships, Black Sails (2008), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, September 2012. It can also be found in the anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2009), edited by Gardner Dozois
• Year's Best SF 14 (2009), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009, edited by Rich Horton
• The Book of Cthulhu 2 (2012), edited by Ross E. Lockhart
• Space Opera (2014), edited by Rich Horton
• The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (2014), edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane

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This novelette originally appeared in the anthology Lovecraft Unbound: Twenty Stories (2009), edited by Ellen Datlow, and was reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine, #81 June 2013. It can also be found in the anthologies

• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Four (2010), edited by Jonathan Strahan
• The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010, edited by Rich Horton
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010), edidted by Gardner Dozois
• New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird (2011), edited by Paula Guran
• In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (2013), edited by Hank Davis

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This novelette originally appeared in two installments in audio format at Drablecast, Augusts/September 2012. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection (2013), edited by Gardner Dozois, and New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird (2015), edited by Paula Guran.

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Kyle Murchison Booth is the unlikeliest of characters to gain a cult following, yet he has. Eccentric, socially awkward Booth is an introverted museum archivist, descended from a most unusual family, who frequently finds himself in the midst of the most unsettling supernatural experiences and strange necromantic mysteries. A gentleman and a scholar, the unwilling hero persevered through The Bone Key, a series of interconnected short stories, to win readers' hearts (and possibly their souls).

This new edition, with a "puzzle" cover and a new introduction by one of Booth's "successors" at the Samuel Mather Parrington Museum, will delight current fans and allow even more to discover its dark charms.

Contents:

• Bringing Helena Back - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2004) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• Drowning Palmer - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2006) - novelette by Sarah Monette
• Elegy for a Demon Lover - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2005) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• Introduction (The Bone Key) - (2007) - essay by Sarah Monette
• Listening to Bone - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2007) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• The Bone Key - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2007) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• The Green Glass Paperweight - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2004) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2004) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• The Venebretti Necklace - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2004) - novelette by Sarah Monette
• The Wall of Clouds - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2003) - novella by Sarah Monette
• Wait for Me - [Kyle Murchison Booth] - (2004) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• Introduction to the Second Edition (The Bone Key) - (2011) - essay by Lynne M. Thomas

Contents:

• The Replacement - (2008) - shortstory by Sarah Monette
• The World Without Sleep - (2008) - novelette by Sarah Monette
• White Charles - (2009) - novelette by Sarah Monette
• The Yellow Dressing Gown - (2008) - shortstory by Sarah Monette

This short story originally appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, September 2009. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010, edited by Paula Guran, and Clarkesworld: Year Three (2013), edited by Sean Wallace and Neil Clarke. The story is included in the collection Unnatural Creatures (2011).

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Mélusine-a city of secrets and lies, pleasure and pain, magic and corruption, and destinies lost and found...

Felix Harrowgate is a dashing, highly respected wizard. But the horrors of his past as an abused slave have returned, and threaten to destroy all he has since become.

As a cat burglar, Mildmay the Fox is used to being hunted. But now he has been caught by a wizard. And yet the wizard was looking not for Mildmay, but for Felix Harrowgate...

Thrown together by fate, these unlikely allies will uncover a shocking secret that will link them inexorably together.

To reclaim his powers, wizard Felix Harrowgate must restore the magical talisman known as the Virtu-by confronting the dark sorcerer who destroyed it.

The dashing wizard Felix Harrowgate has reclaimed his sanity, magic, and position in society. But even as he returns to his former place in the Mirador-the citadel of power and wizardry-there are many who desire his end. Mildmay the Fox is an ex-assassin, a cat-burglar, and Felix's half-brother. Tied to Felix by blood and magic, Mildmay goes where Felix goes-even into the Mirador. There, Mildmay finds himself drawn to an alluring spy of the Bastion, a rival school of wizards.

The Bastion desires above all else to bring down the Mirador, and Felix is the key to its destruction. But Mildmay cannot let Felix stand alone, and will fight to save both his brother and his city from certain ruin.

Exiled from Melusine for the crime of heresy, Felix Harrowgate and his half-brother Mildmay journey to the land of Corambis to face judgement from a ruling body of wizards. Both brothers carry memories, regret, and-hidden deep in their hearts-hope.

A Companion to Wolves is the story of a young nobleman, Isolfr, who is chosen to become a wolfcarl -- a warrior who is bonded to a fighting wolf. Isolfr is deeply drawn to the wolves, and though as his father's heir he can refuse the call, he chooses to go.

The people of this wintry land depend on the wolfcarls to protect them from the threat of trolls and wyverns, though the supernatural creatures have not come in force for many years. Men are growing too confident. The wolfhealls are small, and the lords give them less respect than in former years. But the winter of Isolfr's bonding, the trolls come down from the north in far greater numbers than before, and the holding's complaisance gives way to terror in the dark.

Isolfr, now bonded to a queen wolf, Viradechtis, must learn where his honor lies, and discover the lengths to which he will to go when it, and love for his wolf, drive him.

In Iskryne, the war against the Trollish invasion has been won, and the lands of men are safe again... at least for a while. Isolfr and his sister, the Konigenwolf Viradechtis, have established their own wolfhaell. Viradechtis has taken two mates, and so the human pack has two war leaders. And in the way of the pack, they must come to terms with each other, must become brothers instead of rivals--for Viradechtis will not be gainsaid.

She may even be prescient.

A new danger comes to Iskryne. An army of men approaches, an army that wishes to conquer and rule. The giant trellwolves and their human brothers have never hunted men before. They will need to learn if they are to defend their homes.

Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear return with the third book in their Iskryne trilogy, An Apprentice to Elves. The trilogy began with A Companion to Wolves, and continued in The Tempering of Men. This novel picks up the story of Alfgyfa, a young woman who has been raised in the Wolfhall by her father Isolfr, who is the human leader of the queen-wolf Viridechtis' pack, and was the protagonist of the first book.

The warrior culture of Iskryne forbids many things to women--and most especially it forbids them bonding to one of the giant telepathic trelwolves. But as her father was no ordinary boy, Alfgyfa is no ordinary girl. Her father has long planned to send his daughter to Tin, a matriarch among the elves who live nearby, to be both apprentice and ambassador, and now she is of age to go.