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Since the days on antiquity people have been fascinated with angels: the ethereal beings who are said to hover between Heaven and Earth, watching over us to intercede in the age-old struggle between good and evil. Here is a collection of tales by well-known authors, who tell of winged messengers and their mysterious, magical and sometimes startling encounters on Earth. Some of these stories take place in contemporary settings, where the gritty realities of life would seem to negate the very existence of these heavenly creatures. There are tales of guardian angels, traditional angels, fallen angels and angels who seem to be very unlikely messengers of God. In this volume: Unworthy Of The Angel, Stephen Donaldson; The Penalty, Henry Slesar; The Box, Bruce Coville; Angel Levine, Bernard Malamud; Angelica, Jane Yolen; Your Soul Comes C.O.D., Mack Reynolds; A Plethora Of Angels, Robert Sampson; The General Zapped An Angel, Howard Fast; Alfred, Lisa Goldstein; And The Angels Sing, Kate Wilhelm; Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven, Mark Twain; What Men Live By, Leo Tolstoy; Basileus, Robert Silverberg; The Last Trump, Isaac Asimov; Angel's Egg, Edgar Pangborn; The Big Sky, Charles De Lint; The Angel Was A Yankee, Steohen Vincent Benét. -
A volume of the best fantastical authors, selected by other fantastical authors? What more could anyone want? In this volume: Ghosts of Wind And Shadow, Charles de Lint: chosen by Tanya Huff; Mazirian The Magician and Liane The Wayfarer, Jack Vance: chosen by Robert Silverberg and George R.R. Martin; Troll Bridge, Terry Pratchett: chosen by Michelle West; The Tale Of Hauk, Poul Anderson: chosen by Mickey Zucker Reichert; In Our Block, R.A. Lafferty: chosen by Neil Gaiman; The Gnarly Man, L. Sprague de Camp: chosen by Terry Pratchett; Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You My Lad, M.R. James: chosen by Morgan Llewellyn; Homeland, Barbara Kingsolver: chosen by Charles de Lint; Stealing God, Debra Doyle and James D. MacDonald: chosen by Katherine Kurtz; Shadowlands, Elizabeth Waters: chosen by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Mopsa The Fairy, Jean Inglelow: chosen by Gene Wolfe; The Spring, Manly Wade Wellman: chosen by Andre Norton; That Hell-Bound Train, Robert Bloch: chosen by Rick Hautala; The Dancer From The Dance, M. John Harrison: chosen by Stephen Donaldson; More Spinned Against, John Wyndham: chosen by Matt Costello; The Bagman's Story, Charles Dickens: chosen by Margaret Weis; Unicorn Variations, Roger Zelazny: chosen by Fred Saberhagen. Cover art by Les Edwards. -
Cosmo Topper, a law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager, decides to buy a secondhand car, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of its previous owners - the reckless, feckless, frivolous couple who met their untimely demise when the car careened into an oak tree. The ghosts, George and Marion Kerby, make it their mission to rescue Topper from the drab "summer of suburban Sundays" that is his life - and they commence a series of madcap adventures (including an adventure in a lingerie department, when Marion decides to try on a pair of purple and pink knickers...) that leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight. As enchanting today as it was when first published in 1926, Topper has set the standard in American pop culture for such mischievous apparitions as those seen in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Heaven Can Wait, Beetlejuice and Bewitched. -
Book III of The Door Within. Paragor, the betrayer of King Eliam, unites with the Wyrm Lord and the Seven Sleepers to launch a full scale assault on the Kingdom of Alleble. While Alleble and its allies prepare for the coming onslaught, they cling to an ancient legend about three witnesses who have the power to bring victory. But is the legend true? And if it's true, where are they? Time is running out as darkness spreads over the land. For young adult readers.
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Book I of Song Of The Tears. After ten years of servitude, Nish is about to be released from the blackest prison of the maimed God-Emperor, Jal-Nish Hlar, his corrupt father. Using the sorcerous Profane Tears, Gatherer and Reaper, Jal-Nish Hlar controls all of the Secret Art. All opposition having been crushed, he has begun to remake the world in his depraved image. The only hope of overthrowing him lies in Nish, whom the oppressed peoples of the world see as a messianic figure, the Deliverer, who long ago promised to return and cast down his father. But Nish is a broken man and must repudiate that sacred oath - he is powerless and alone. And worse, his father is trying to seduce him into becoming his lieutenant and faced with the unbearable alternative of another ten years in prison, Nish isn't sure he can resist the temptation. The one person who can help Nish is little Maelys, a shy, bookish dreamer forced by duty to use Nish for an ignoble purpose. But Maelys is the last woman he wants and she carries a secret far more likely to destroy Nish than save him. Cover art by Les peterson. -
Book X of The Wars Of Light And Shadow. Lysaer’s unstable integrity lies under threat of total downfall, and as his determined protector, Daliana will face the most frightening decision of her young life. Arithon, Master of Shadow, is marked for death and still hunted, when his critical quest to recover his obscured past entangles him in a web of deep intrigue and ancient perils beyond his imagining. Elaira’s urgent pursuit of the Biedar Tribes’ secret embroils her in the terrible directive of the Fellowship Sorcerers, while Dakar — the Mad Prophet — confronts the hard reckoning for the colossal mistake of his misspent past, and Tarens is steered by a destiny far from his crofter’s origins. Cover art by Janny Wurts. -
Durbren, the Green Kingdom is a strange and compelling underwater world of Celtic myth and legend. Jack Fisher learns on his sixteenth birthday that he is the Champion of the Green Kingdom, and fated to fight Grimlow, Lord of the Abyss, who threatens the Green Kingdom. But Jack is of Earth - his home has always been the village by the river, though lately he has felt very unwelcome there. He follows Vagan, a merman aristocrat, and Shellycoat, a puckish water-spirit, into the lands of the Green Prince, journeying first to the Riverland, then Lakeland, and then into the Green Kingdom itself. Along the way, he finds knowledge and love but also pain - and when at last he has to confront Grimlow, it is not at all sure that he will survive. Cover art by Danielle Cairis and Scott Cameron. -
The story of Merlin and of Arthur's boyhood until his accession to the throne, having passed through the tests of manhood and the pain of distinguishing friend from enemy, yet never failing in his perception of his destiny. Merlin sees and knows much yet he must suffer, as well, the pangs of a nation in strife, embattled kings and courtiers, journeys and death.
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Two-volume set. A celebration of an unrivalled era in Australian fantasy writing and illustration. It's an anthology of Australian classics of the golden age from 1900 to the 1940s - Dorothy Wall, Harold Gaze, Norman Lindsay, Pixie O'Harris and May Gibbs, writers who created a magic door for children to enter a realm of fantasy that was uniquely Australian. The adventures of Blinky Bill, Chucklebud and Wunkydoo, Albert the Magic Christmas Pudding and an entire cast of elves, sprites, fairies and goblins who continue to charm and delight readers of all ages. There are diverse illustrators: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, D.H. Souter, May Gibbs, Norman Lindsay and Harold Gaze, who drew inspiration from an English style of fantasy and combined it with Australian flora and fauna. Holden also presents the lives and works of well known - and lesser-known - authors. Both volumes lavishly illustrated.
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