Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy

By Ellen Datlow, Christopher Fowler, Naomi Novik, et al.

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312385242
• ISBN13: 9780312385248
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

it's not what you think

I bought this book because my neighbors reads "romance" novels like they were a snack food. I figured I'd give it a glance to see just how much "heaving Cleavage" there might be. Ooops...the book actually drew me and was FAR from a cheap romance novel. It had stalker elements, your basic serial killer. Suspense, aliens destined to wreak havoc on our Earth, etc. Not a cheap story in the book. Multiple authors which always keeps stories fresh and they can also direct you to new, undiscovered talent. I was STILL to bashful to give it to anyone but the birthday girl and she LOVED it. For those of you following along, I am gay and in my 60's so I had nothing to lose by expounding on this book. BUY IT>