Fantasy Short Stories

Jane Yellowrock and the Younger brothers, partners in Yellowrock Securities, are hired by the state of Louisiana to track, hunt, and dispatch a small pack of marauding werewolves. They may be part of the larger pack that Jane destroyed in the novel Mercy Blade. The job sounds easy on the surface, but is anything ever easy for Jane or her Beast?

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers, these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world's leading vampire anthologists and experts.

When Bella signs up to work at the galaxy’s most exclusive alien pleasure palace, she’s not expecting to be transformed into the ultimate dairy hucow. But her new role comes with perks—plush accommodations, luxurious treatments, and aliens from every corner of the cosmos desperate to indulge in her creamy offerings. With her enhanced body and insatiable clients, Bella discovers that life as a milkmaid at the Pleasure Palace is far more decadent—and satisfying—than she ever imagined. PLEASURE PALACE MILKMAID is 15k words of delicious BDSM sci-fi erotica featuring consenting adults,...

When Molly Everhart Trueblood doesn’t show up for her shift at Seven Sassy Sisters Herb Shop and Café, Jane Yellowrock goes to the house to check on her. There Jane discovers a black cloud of wild, out of control magic attacking the small home. How can Jane save the small family?

Here are delightful upendings of genre clichés and heartfelt revitalizations of classic tropes. Here is social commentary with teeth, and here are scenes of pants-wettingly funny comedy. Here are characters and situations that by their very outrageousness achieve a heightened realism unlike any other. And here is one of the strongest voices in modern science fiction, the writer called by Andrew Sean Greer “this generation’s Le Guin”.

Story 1 – Beautiful Surprise Story 2 – The Exchange Student Story 3 – The Bus Ride Story 4 – The Hero Story 5 – Just another Day Story 6 – Rosebud Story 7 – The Sex Machine **All Characters depicted in this book are Eighteen years of age or older**

Two primal erotic fantasies stretching back to the days of humanity's prehistoric past! Two stories of sexy young human females being seduced by the power of the dino pheromone - and left begging to be taken raw and filled up with potent dino seed! For more dirty details, Look Inside, and have your prehistoric fantasies fulfilled!

Robert "Bubba" Brabham never wanted to hunt monsters. He mostly wanted to drink beer, hunt deer, and chase women, like every other giant redneck in the world. But life interfered, and Bubba found himself holster-deep in the family business: monster hunting. Now he's the Southeastern Regional Hunter for the Holy Roman Catholic Church...Bubba has to save the world from the things that go bump in the night! Just as soon as he's done with his beer. And maybe after one more lap dance.

Frank is my girlfriend's father, and he hates me! He won't let anyone date his daughter unless he believes them to be a real man. After being embarrassed by him yet again, I'm determined to prove to Frank that I am a real man. There's just one problem: Frank doesn't have your ordinary "dad bod." He's an ex-football player and built like a truck. He challenges me to three feats of strength. If I can pass all three of his feats of strength, then he'll admit I have what it takes to date his daughter. But if I fail? Let's just say I have to get down on me knees while he shows me what a real man...

In this emotionally charged story, Max faces the complexities of life, death, and the profound connections that transcend the boundaries of time and space. After Max's passing, he finds himself reborn on a distant planet, navigating a new existence. The story weaves through themes of love, loss, and the enduring bonds that persist even in the face of unimaginable circumstances. As Max grapples with his identity and purpose, he discovers a rare and timeless connection that transcends lifetimes. The narrative unfolds with a delicate balance of heart-wrenching moments and moments of hope, ...

Author Yiyun Li, honored as one of Granta’s 21 Best Young American Novelists under age 35, continues her illustrious career with this insightful collection of short stories. With compelling visions of the scrapes and unpleasant situations in which people find themselves, Li’s works trigger emotional responses of all types - whether through a tale of unrequited love, an unburdening of guilt, or something else entirely.

You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me. And that’s when you met me." A short story about the universe.

The Banished Lands has a violent past, where men and giants clashed in a war for supremacy and near-extinction for the vanquished. Now men rule the land, giants little more than a memory, lurking in the wilds and dark places. This tale takes place ten years before the events of Malice, book one of The Faithful and the Fallen, within the Darkwood, a great forest that splits the western realms of Ardan and Narvon.

"Mather’s Blood" takes place before the start of the DemonWars Saga and tells of the ranger Mather Wyndon, uncle of Elbryan, a central figure in DemonWars.

More than a hundred years into the future, as the US approaches its 400th anniversary, Tomas, a young graduate student, searches for the real identity of one of the cyborgs that maintained American homes. He has been haunted for years by an audio clip of a cyborg named Felipe and is intent on writing Felipe’s biography. In the clip, Felipe can only recite that he was made in America, but Tomas must find out: Where was the Self-made Man really from?

The centerpiece of Borrowed Time is "Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in the Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms". When you've traveled through time and are stuck in the body of your 15-year-old self, it isn't the best time to have some other time travelers looking to kill you. Especially when the person who's supposed to be keeping an eye out for the bad guys is stuck in his own 15-year-old body.

Yorkshire, 1943. Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones. It’s her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption. One night, she picks up a transmission that isn’t code at all—it’s a cry for help.

For more than 30 years, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror fans crave. Now, with the 11th volume of the series, Daltow's back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. This light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows.

It’s a story you may think you know - an aging baseball coach is challenged by the very boy he took in and raised. But in this near future world, "smart” houses talk and listen, and - privy as they are to the secret life of the household - family life gets interesting. Creepy and funny, unsettling and entertaining, this is a story that stands on its own even as it proves the perfect follow up to Gish Jen’s critically acclaimed novel The Resisters.

All I’m trying to do is get an interview with Adrian Bellamont for my senior project when I get an invite up to the Bellamont Mansion. I know that I shouldn’t go. There’s that gut feeling and the fact that everyone is telling me that he might be a vampire. Even if he isn’t a vampire, he’s just weird. But, I can’t resist him, even if I technically don’t like guys. I mean, I even kind of have a girlfriend. Still, I feel a pull toward him. At the mansion, while going through his jewelry collection, I come across a mysterious necklace that seems to be calling to me. And when I put...