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Naked City Anthology

Naked City is a science fiction / fantasy anthology featuring stories by Nathan Ballingrud, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, Holly Black.

Stories: 20 Authors: 20 Published: Jul-2011 Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy

Stories in This Anthology

Each story in this volume is listed below with its author and available publication details.

  1. 1

    The Way Station

  2. 2

    Underbridge

  3. 3

    King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree

  4. 4

    Noble Rot

  5. 5

    On the Slide

  6. 6

    Fairy Gifts

    Mercy Thompson #0.5
  7. 7

    Curses

    The Dresden Files #10.5
  8. 8

    Picking up the Pieces

  9. 9

    And Go Like This

  10. 10

    Daddy Longlegs of the Evening

  11. 11

    Oblivion by Calvin Klein

  12. 12

    The Colliers' Venus (1893)

  13. 13

    The Bricks of Gelecek

  14. 14

    The Duke of Riverside

  15. 15

    Guns for the Dead

    Graveminder #1.5
  16. 16

    Priced To Sell

  17. 17

    Weston Walks

  18. 18

    The Skinny Girl

  19. 19

    How the Pooka Came to New York City

  20. 20

    The Projected Girl

About This Anthology

Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection, Naked City, is not to be missed! Edited by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow.

In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill, and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher's "Curses" Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs' "Fairy Gifts," a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr's "Guns for the Dead," the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black's "Noble Rot," a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own.

Delia Sherman, Richard Bowes, Ellen Kushner, Christopher Fowler, Pat Cadigan, Peter S. Beagle, Naomi Novik, Matthew Kressel, Kit Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Nathan Ballingrud, John Crowley, Jeffrey Ford, Lucius Shepard, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Elizabeth Bear also contribute to this fabulous collection.