The Second Volume in the Acclaimed Series!
Volume 2 takes the reader into the world of urban fantasy, where things seem familiar but quickly turn strange. Urban settings, twisted fantasy in twenty breathtaking stories.
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.
Don’t miss these twenty fantasy stories that make you look twice at any city.
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Urban Fantasy xv
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Ten Stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch xvii
GAME TESTING 1
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
THE MIDBURY LAKE INCIDENT 43
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
HARVEST 57
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
MY REAL COUSIN RUBY 81
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
DOMESTIC MAGIC 107
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
DREAD UNLOCKS 133
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
TRACK 61 147
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
DISRUPT MAGIC 171
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
THE SCOTTISH PLAY 199
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
PHANTOM 225
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Ten Stories by Dean Wesley Smith 269
OLD MEMORIES 271
A Marble Grant Story
Dean Wesley Smith
A GREAT FIRST DAY 281
A Ghost of a Chance Story
Dean Wesley Smith
SUBDIVISION SURVIVAL: THE GAME 299
A Bryant Street Story
Dean Wesley Smith
BLIND POET 307
Dean Wesley Smith
THE MAN WHO USED SHRILL WHISPERS 323
Dean Wesley Smith
UNLOCKED GATE 333
Dean Wesley Smith
NOT EASY TO KILL THE LIGHT NEXT DOOR 353
A Bryant Street Story
Dean Wesley Smith
A PITY ABOUT THE DELUSION 361
Dean Wesley Smith
A LADY IN HEAT 373
A Marble Grant Story
Dean Wesley Smith
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION 383
A Bryant Street Story
Dean Wesley Smith
About the Author 407
About the Author 409
Expanded Copyright Information 417
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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.