Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
- ISBN-10
- 1429983159
- ISBN-13
- 9781429983150
- Series
- Naked City
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 560
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-07-05
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Author
- Ellen Datlow
Description
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. Featuring original stories from 20 authors, Naked City, edited by the award-winning Ellen Datlow, is a dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection that's sure to have readers coming back for more.
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Other editions
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- 2012-12-20
- 232 pages
- Paperback
- Independently Published
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- 2009-12-18
- 312 pages
- Ebook
- Oxford University Press
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