The First Volume in the Acclaimed Series!
For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith wrote professional fantasy short stories that won awards and sold millions of copies.
Now, for the first time, they collect together 100 of their fantasy short stories into a five-volume set called Fantasies Collide. Fifty stories total from each author, with ten stories from Rusch and ten from Smith in every volume.
Volume 1 starts off the series with twenty mind-bending light or weird fantasy stories. No one does weird fantasy stories better than Rusch and Smith. Don’t miss this one!
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Weird xv
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Ten Stories by Dean Wesley Smith xvii
HIDDEN BOX INN AND CASINO 1
A Poker Boy Story
Dean Wesley Smith
SHE ARRIVED WITHOUT A SONG 15
A Jukebox Story
Dean Wesley Smith
GHOST OF POKER GAMES PAST 27
A Poker Boy Story
Dean Wesley Smith
A VANILLA THREE-WAY WITH A CHERRY 43
Dean Wesley Smith
DELIGHTFULLY DIZZY 55
A Marble Grant Story
Dean Wesley Smith
ROSES AROUND THE MOMENT 63
A Ghost of a Chance Story
Dean Wesley Smith
THROUGH THE FOR SALE SIGN 81
A Bryant Street Story
Dean Wesley Smith
NO FIRING SQUAD YET 91
A Marble Grant Story
Dean Wesley Smith
A PINCH OF HOW ROSIE LIVED 99
Dean Wesley Smith
THE MAN WHO TASTED THE OTHER SIDE 117
A Bryant Street Story
Dean Wesley Smith
Ten Stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 127
PLAYING WITH REALITY 129
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
SALEM WEEK 155
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
FASHION AND THE SNARKMEISTERS 177
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
THE CHARMING WAY 197
Kristine Grayson
COSMIC BALANCES INC. 225
Kristine Grayson
THE STRANGENESS OF THE DAY 243
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
CHRISTOPHER’S CRUMMY CHRISTMAS 271
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
AND A CUP OF GOOD CHEER 277
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
THE LAST VAMPIRE 303
Kristine Grayson
SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND 313
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
About the Author 327
About the Author 329
Expanded Copyright Information 337
Über den Autor
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published almost two hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang.His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70, 000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month.During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series, which launched in 2013. In 2018, WMG Publishing Inc. launched the first issue of the reincarnated Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, with Dean reprising his role as editor.For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.
Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
751.402 Ebooks in dieser Kategorie
