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This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2012, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, January 2015. The story can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven (2013), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

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This novelette originally appeared in the anthololgy Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales (2013), edited by Paula Guran. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, edited by Rich Horton.

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing (2009), edited by Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, January 2013. It can also be found in the anhtology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2010, edited by Rich Horton.

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This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, July 2014. It can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Nine (2015), edited by Jonathan Strahan, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015, edited by Rich Horton and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, edited by Joe Hill and John Joseph Adams.

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Come See the Living Dryad by Theodora Goss is a fantasy about a contemporary woman investigating the murder of an ancestor suffering from a rare disease who was a famous sideshow attraction in the nineteenth century.

This story can be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve (2018), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

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This short story originally appeared in Clarkesworld, Issue 73, October 2012. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2013, edited by Paula Guran, Clarkesworld: Year Seven (2015), edited by Neil Clarke and Sean Wallace, and Warrior Women (2015), edited by Paula Guran.

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This short story originally appeared in Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy (2013), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, September 2015.

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This short story originally appeared in Apex Magazine, August 2010. It can also be found in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Five (2011), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

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This short story originally appeared in the collection The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories (2004), and was reprinted in Clarkesworld Magazine, August 2008.

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In the Forest of Forgetting showcases such stories as "The Rose in Twelve Petals," "The Rapid Advance of Sorrow," "Lily, With Clouds," "In the Forest of Forgetting," "Sleeping With Bears" and many more, with an introduction by Terri Windling and cover by Virginia Lee.

This short story originally appeared in Alchemy #1, Winter 2003, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, April 2016. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2004), edited by Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link. The story is included in the collections The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories (2004) and In the Forest of Forgetting (2006).

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Nebula Award nominated short story. Originally appeared at Strange Horizons where it can still be read for free. Later anthologized in Jonathan Strahan's Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005 (2006), Sean Wallace's Best New Fantasy (2006) and Rich Horton's Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition (2006). Collected in In the Forest of Forgetting (2006).

This short story originally appeared in Realms of Fantasy, June 2007, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, June 2013. I can also be found in the anthologies Year's Best Fantasy 8 (2008), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, and Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold (2016), edited by Paula Guran.

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This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2011. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012, edited by Rich Horton.

This novelette originally appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 102, November 2018.

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Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss is a dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy tales, who upon discovering a ragged woman outside the castle during a storm, takes her in--certain she's a princess in disguise.

This Locus Award novelette is included in the anthology The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 11 (2017), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

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World Fantasy Award winning short story. It oriignally appeared in the anthology Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories (2007), edited by John Klima, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, July 2012. It can also be found in the anthologies Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition, edited by Rich Horton, and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Two (2008), edited by Jonathan Strahan.

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A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic--while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems. The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid's voice. A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a new tale.

In these eight stories and twenty-three poems, World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss retells and recasts fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, always lyrical, the works gathered in Snow White Learns Witchcraft re-center and empower the women at the heart of these timeless narratives. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Jane Yolen, in her introduction, proclaims that Goss "transposes, transforms, and transcends times, eras, and old tales with ease. But also there is a core of tough magic that runs through all her pieces like a river through Faerie... I am ready to reread some of my new favorites."

Table of Contents:

• A Welcome to the Coven: Introduction - essay by Jane Yolen
• Snow White Learns Witchcraft - poem
• The Ogress Queen - poem
• The Rose in Twelve Petals - (2002) - short story
• Thorns and Briars - poem
• Rose Child - (2016) - poem
• Thumbelina - poem
• Blanchefleur - (2013) - novelette
• Mr. Fox - poem
• What Her Mother Said - (2004) - poem
• Snow, Blood, Fur - (2017) - short story
• The Red Shoes - poem
• Girl, Wolf, Woods - poem
• Red as Blood and White as Bone - (2016) - novelette
• The Gold-Spinner - poem
• Rumpelstiltskin - poem
• Goldilocks and the Bear - poem
• Sleeping With Bears - (2003) - short story
• The Stepsister's Tale - poem
• The Clever Serving-Maid - poem
• Seven Shoes - (2017) - poem
• The Other Thea - (2016) - novelette
• The Sensitive Woman - poem
• The Bear's Wife - (2016) - poem
• The Bear's Daughter - (2004) - poem
• A Country Called Winter - novelette
• How to Make It Snow - poem
• Diamonds and Toads - poem
• The Princess and the Frog - poem
• Conversations with the Sea Witch - short story
• The Nightingale and the Rose - poem
• Mirror, Mirror - poem
• Acknowledgments - essay

Songs for Ophelia, with an introduction by Catherynne M. Valente, is a new collection of eighty otherworldly poems which lead the reader, as though under a spell, through the unfolding of the seasons and into the realm of pure magic. Songs for Ophelia, also features cover art by Virgina Lee.

Contents:

• The Rose in Twelve Petals
• The Rapid Advance of Sorrow
• Professor Berkowitz Stands on the Threshold
• Lily, With Clouds
• Her Mother's Ghosts
• What Her Mother Said
• Chrysanthemums
• The Ophelia Cantos
• That Year
• The Bear's Daughter
• Bears
• Helen in Sparta
• By Tidal Pools
• The Changeling

WFA nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Polyphony: Volume 4 (2004), edited by Deborah Layne and Jay Lake. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection (2005), edited by Jane Yolen and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010), edited by Sean Wallace and Rachel Swirsky. It is included in the collection In the Forest of Forgetting (2006).

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 14, January-February 2017.

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This volume features fantastical poems by Mary Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, accompanied by four fascinating essays and several poems by Theodora Goss in conversation with Coleridge, Mew, and Warner's poems. Goss writes that she chose to focus on these poets because "of all the poets I could have included they are the most talented among those whose talents have gone largely unrecognized." Coleridge, Mew, and Warner, Goss argues, "are only three examples of what I consider a broader phenomenon, the rest of the ice that must be present, underwater, when we see icebergs floating on a northern sea. That underwater ice is the tradition of women writing fantastical poetry." Goss's essays explore important themes of that writing, and her poems are written in conversation with Coleridge, Mew, and Warner's poems.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Poems by Mary Coleridge
• Through the Gates of Ivory and Horn: The Fantastical Poems of Mary Coleridge
• Poems by Charlotte Mew
• Into the Wet, Wild Wood: The Fantastical Poems of Charlotte Mew
• Poems by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• A Birdsong Wilderness: The Fantastical Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Poems by Theodora Goss

Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres--realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political--and bring up gems of new fiction: interstitial fiction.

This is the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex, ambiguous, and challenging world that we live in. These nineteen stories, by some of the most interesting and innovative writers working today, will change your mind about what stories can and should do as they explore the imaginative space between conventional genres. The editors garnered stories from new and established authors in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, and also fiction translated from Spanish, Hungarian, and French. The collection features stories from Christopher Barzak, Colin Greenland, Holly Phillips, Rachel Pollack, Vandana Singh, Anna Tambour, Catherynne Valente, Leslie What, and others.

Contents:

• Introduction (Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing) - essay by Heinz Insu Fenkl
• Alternate Anxieties - shortstory by Karen Jordan Allen
• What We Know About the Lost Families of -- -- House - shortstory by Christopher Barzak
• Black Feather - shortstory by K. Tempest Bradford
• A Map of the Everywhere - shortstory by Matthew Cheney
• The Utter Proximity of God - shortstory by Michael J. DeLuca
• When It Rains, You'd Better Get Out of Ulga - shortstory by Adrián Ferrero
• Timothy - shortstory by Colin Greenland
• A Drop of Raspberry - shortstory by Csilla Kleinheincz
• Queen of the Butterfly Kingdom - shortstory by Holly Phillips
• Burning Beard: The Dreams and Visions of Joseph Ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt - shortstory by Rachel Pollack
• Pallas at Noon - shortstory by Joy Marchand [as by Joy Remy ]
• The Shoe in SHOES' Window - shortstory by Anna Tambour
• Rats - shortstory by Veronica Schanoes
• Emblemata - shortstory by Léa Silhol
• Willow Pattern - shortstory by Jon Singer
• Hunger - shortstory by Vandana Singh
• Climbing Redemption Mountain - shortstory by Mikal Trimm
• A Dirge for Prester John - shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente
• Post hoc - shortstory by Leslie What
• Afterword: The Space Between - essay by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss

Based on some of literature's horror and science fiction classics, this is the story of a remarkable group of women who come together to solve the mystery of a series of gruesome murders--and the bigger mystery of their own origins.

Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture... a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes.

But her hunt leads her to Hyde's daughter, Diana, a feral child left to be raised by nuns. With the assistance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Mary continues her search for the elusive Hyde, and soon befriends more women, all of whom have been created through terrifying experimentation: Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherin Moreau, and Justine Frankenstein.

When their investigations lead them to the discovery of a secret society of immoral and power-crazed scientists, the horrors of their past return. Now it is up to the monsters to finally triumph over the monstrous.

Mary Jekyll's life has been peaceful since she helped Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the Whitechapel Murders. Beatrice Rappaccini, Catherine Moreau, Justine Frankenstein, and Mary's sister Diana Hyde have settled into the Jekyll household in London, and although they sometimes quarrel, the members of the Athena Club get along as well as any five young women with very different personalities. At least they can always rely on Mrs. Poole.

But when Mary receives a telegram that Lucinda Van Helsing has been kidnapped, the Athena Club must travel to the Austro-Hungarian Empire to rescue yet another young woman who has been subjected to horrific experimentation. Where is Lucinda, and what has Professor Van Helsing been doing to his daughter? Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, and Justine reach her in time?

Racing against the clock to save Lucinda from certain doom, the Athena Club embarks on a madcap journey across Europe. From Paris to Vienna to Budapest, Mary and her friends must make new allies, face old enemies, and finally confront the fearsome, secretive Alchemical Society. It's time for these monstrous gentlewomen to overcome the past and create their own destinies.

Mary Jekyll and the Athena Club race to save Alice--and foil a plot to unseat the Queen, in the electrifying conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Nebula Award finalist and Locus Award winner The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter.

Life's always an adventure for the Athena Club... especially when one of their own has been kidnapped! After their thrilling European escapades rescuing Lucina van Helsing, Mary Jekyll and her friends return home to discover that their friend and kitchen maid Alice has vanished-- and so has their friend and employer Sherlock Holmes!

As they race to find Alice and bring her home safely, they discover that Alice and Sherlock's kidnapping are only one small part of a plot that threatens Queen Victoria, and the very future of the British Empire. Can Mary, Diana, Beatrice, Catherine, and Justine save their friends--and save the Empire? Find out in the final installment of the fantastic and memorable Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series.