The Final Volume in the Acclaimed Series!
Volume 5 ends the series with twenty dark fantasy stories. And Rusch and Smith do dark fantasy better than any two writers working today.
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.
The twenty dark fantasy stories in this volume offer voyages into the darkest shadows with just a hint of light.
Cuprins
Dark Fantasy xv
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Ten Stories by Dean Wesley Smith xvii
BEST EATEN ON A SLOW TUESDAY 1
Dean Wesley Smith
I’M HER DEAD HUSBAND 13
Dean Wesley Smith
KILL FOR A STATISTIC 31
Dean Wesley Smith
THE WOMAN IN THE WALL 39
Dean Wesley Smith
A LACK OF TOMORROW 51
Dean Wesley Smith
MATCHBOX AGENDA 59
Dean Wesley Smith
DEAD EVEN 69
Dean Wesley Smith
THE WAIT 81
Dean Wesley Smith
IN THE DREAMS OF MANY BODIES 87
Dean Wesley Smith
OUR SLAYING SONG TONIGHT 95
Dean Wesley Smith
Ten Stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 113
MONUMENTS TO THE DEAD 115
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
AT THE CROSSROADS 135
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
CORPSE VISION 159
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
DEATH STOPPED FOR MISS DICKINSON 193
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
WALTZING ON A DANCER’S GRAVE 229
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
HANDFAST 273
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
SUBSTITUTIONS 297
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT 319
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
SALES. FORCE. 339
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
KILLING THE ANGEL OF DEATH 363
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
About the Author 439
About the Author 441
Expanded Copyright Information 449
Despre 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.