Seventeen-year-old Astor thinks she is about the wed the handsome plutocrat Lorrain Swale. But, to her horror, her mother and step-father abandon her, and she finds herself a lowly governess in the Swale household. Treated with contempt by the whole famil
Scheherazade’s One Thousand and One Nights stories have captured imaginations for a millennia. Fairy tales and fables abound, telling of the fantastic and mysterious, the comic and dramatic.This anthology will explore romantic Orientalism through a spec
Putting the steamy back into steampunk.105,000 words of steampunk romance, edited by the award-winning Liz Grzyb.Stories by:Marilag Angway, "Smuggler's Deal"Cherith Baldry, "The Venetian Cat"Gio Clairval, "The Writing Cembalo"M L D Curelas, "Ironclad"Ray
What frightens us? What unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw, tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the nineteen
Thirty-two fantastic stories and poems first published in 2011, from New Zealand's and Australia's finest writers.Contents:Peter M Ball "Briar Day" (Moonlight Tuber)Lee Battersby "Europe After The Rain" (After the Rain, Fablecroft Press)Deborah Biancotti
Following the World Fantasy Award-winning Dreaming Down-Under, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestse
Seventeen all-new stories illuminate the steampunk world of fog and fear!Modern masters of the supernatural weave their magic to revitalize the chilling Victorian and Edwardian ghostly tale: here are haunted houses, arcane inventions, spirits reaching acr
A dozen of the most exciting and unique writers for young people have chosen fairytales as starting points for their own original stories, in this surprising and spellbinding two-volume collectionMargo Lanagan (Tender Morsels), Rosie Borella, Isobelle C
Col is a wealthy child of privilege. Raised to succeed his grandfather as the Supreme Commander of the juggernaut Worldshaker, he has lived a pampered life on the Upper Decks. He has never questioned his place in the world or his bright and illustrious fu
