Fantasy

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  • In this volume: Farrell And Lila The Werewolf, Peter S. Beagle: Farrell, a musician living in NYC, keeps falling for women who have serious issues. His latest live-in girlfriend, Lila, is a werewolf, as he discovers after she moves in with him. Adam Had Three Brothers, R.A. Lafferty: Adam had three brothers: Etienne, Yancy and Req. This story is about the descendants of Req, or as they’re better known, the Wrecks. Big Sam, Avram Davidson; Longtooth, Edgar Pangborn: A strange, Sasquatch-like figure haunts a remote farm where a young woman lives with her much older husband.   The Inner Circles, Fritz Leiber; Von Goom's Gambit, Victor Contoski: A chess genius devisses and opening whose mere pattern on the board causes convulsions, insanity or death in his opponents. Through a Glass Darkly, Zenna Henderson; The Stainless Steel Leech, Roger Zelazny: After mankind becomes extinct and the world remains populated only by robots, a freak robot who lives as a fugitive by sucking the power from other robots befriends the last remaining human vampire. Sleeping Beauty, Terry Carr: A dark version of the popular tale... The Plot Is The Thing, Robert Bloch: Peggy, an insomniac who lives alone likes to watch old horror films on the television, then - she is taken away to hospital to meet Dr. Crane... Funes The Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges: After falling off his horse and receiving a bad head injury, Funes acquires the amazing talent - or curse - of remembering absolutely everything. Say Goodbye To The Wind, J.G. Ballard;  A Message From Charity, William M. Lee: Peter Wood, a teenage boy sick with fever develops a  telepathic contact with Charity Payne, a Puritan girl from 1700s America,. who also has the same type of fever. Cover art by Kenneth Smith.
  • It is May, 2045. Waterloo Station  has been renamed Maastrict Terminus, Nelson is gone from his column in Delors Square and the corrupt, bureaucratic United States of Europe has all but snuffed out British national identity. Then fat, asthmatic Dr. Horatio Lestoq discovers a dead body and sniffs something rotten in the Superstate. But whom can he trust? And can cowardly Horatio, brilliant scholar but unlikely hero, unravel the counterplots surrounding  the Aachen  Referendum without getting snuffed out himself?
  • Book VII of Wars of Light and Shadow.  When half-brothers Lysaer and Arithon defeated the Mistwraith, its revenge left them cursed to lifelong enmity.  Arithon, Master of Shadow, has defeated Lysaer's Alliance of Light against immense odds. Having conquered the maze of Kewar, Arithon is now the guest of the formidable sorcerer, Davien the Betrayer. No one knows how his influence will affect Arithon’s recovered mage power, or his newly awakened rogue talent for prescience. Meanwhile, the Koriani enchantresses are determined to make him their captive and their pawn. And as the Alliance regroups, the core of their priesthood now stands corrupted by a dark cabal who plot to enslave their leader, Lysaer, and use the Mistwraith’s curse as their own private weapon to break the world’s order.  Cover art by Janny Wurts.

  • Book III of The Chronicle of Hawklan. Fyorland has fallen, King Rgoric lies dead at the hands of the evil Lord Dan-Tor, who is now master of Fyorland and who is ready to unleash the Dark Lord Sumeral's power over all the lands. Yet Dan-Tor has been grievously wounded by Hawklan's arrow; not all hope is lost in the Darkness. Sylvriss, Rgoric's queen, has escaped to rally the Lords in Exile. In peaceful Orthlund, the arts of war must be painfully relearned.  In the East, ancient foes of Sumeral are at last remembering their vows.  All look to the healer Hawklan for leadership, but he has lain in a coma since his confrontation with Dan-Tor, walking in a world from which none can call him back.  And in the mountains an ancient race stirs, but its allegiance is as yet unknown.  Cover art by Mark Harrison.
  • Book II of Jeremy Moon/Thaumia. In Twilight Valley - where spells don't work at all - any wizard mad enough to admit his trade will find himself in front of a squad of archers.  But Jeremy Moon, advertising executive turned sorcerer, has sworn to help his small furry friend Nul the Pika in his quest to find any surviving members of his almost-extinct race.  Of course, the trail leads Jeremy, Nul and the wizard Barach - with sundry stone gargoyles - straight to the dangerous Twilight Valley. Cover art by Tony Roberts.
  • Book III of The Chronicles Of The Deryni. With young King Kelson on the throne of Gwynedd, the priesthood of the Eleven Kingdoms felt its control deeply threatened.  Kelson is half Deryni - a race of humans gifted with extrasensory powers that had ruled two centuries earlier but had been dethroned and driven underground. The final battle for ultimate power will break into open conflict, led by the Church which equated the pwoers of the Deryni with witchcraft and heresy. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet.
  • Book III of The Deptford Mice. The ghostly spirit of Jupiter has returned, more terrifying than ever before.  Bent on revenge, he smothers the entire world in an eternal winter of ice and snow.  The Deptford Mice are worried:  the mystical bats have fled the attic and underground, a new rat army is mustering.  With food short and no sign of Spring, the mice are in for a desperate struggle. Cover art  by Robin Jarvis.
  • The face of the Earth is changing as the last of the Neanderthals clash with the new race of homo sapiens emerges. When a deadly plague devastates the Blue Shell Tribe, three young  friends band together for the perilous journey to the territory of the Tree People. Duru, the girl, is eagerly accepted for her magical powers.  But the two young men must prove themselves worthy by hunting down and destroying the giant Neanderthal - the last of his line - who has been terrorising the tribe. Cover art by Mike Van Houten.
  • Book IV of The Mallorean. Garion and his companions continue their desperate search for Zandramas, the child of Dark and abductor of Garion's infant son Geran.  Led by the Orb to the island of Melcena, they discover the place where the Sardion once rested and find Denji, a self-taught wizard whose undamaged copy of the Ashabine Oracles carries a message for Garion from the evil God Torak. Cover art by Geoff Taylor.