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Zusatztext Praise for Jim Butcher and the Dresden Files “Butcher is the dean of contemporary urban fantasy.”— Booklist “Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”— Entertainment Weekly Praise for Seanan McGuire “The plot is strong! the characterization is terrific! the tragedies hurt...and McGuire's usual beautiful writing and dark humor are present and accounted for. This has become one of my favorite urban fantasy series.”—Fantasy Literature Praise for Kevin J. Anderson “Anderson's skill in delivering taut action scenes and creating well-rounded human and alien characters adds depth and variety to a series opener that belongs in most SF collections.”— Library Journal Praise for Rob Thurman “Thurman continues to deliver strong tales of dark urban fantasy.”—SFRevu Informationen zum Autor A martial arts enthusiast whose résumé includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives mostly inside his own head so that he can write down the conversation of his imaginary friends, but his head can generally be found in Independence, Missouri. Jim is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera novels, and the Cinder Spires series, which began with The Aeronaut’s Windlass . Kerrie L. Hughes has edited thirteen anthologies in addition to Shadowed Souls , including Maiden Matron Crone , Children of Magic , Fellowship Fantastic , and Dimension Next Doo r. Klappentext Featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman, this dark and gritty "must-read anthology for UF fans"(RT Book Reviews) proves that nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil... In #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher's Cold Case, Molly Carpenter-Harry Dresden's apprentice-turned-Winter Lady-must collect a tribute from a remote Fae colony and discovers that even if you're a good girl, sometimes you have to be bad... New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire's Sleepover finds half-succubus Elsie Harrington kidnapped by a group of desperate teenage boys. Not for anything "weird." They just need her to rescue a little girl from the boogeyman. No biggie. In New York Times bestselling Kevin J. Anderson's Eye of Newt, Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble's latest client is a panicky lizard missing an eye who thinks someone wants him dead. But the truth is that someone only wants him for a very special dinner... And New York Times bestselling author Rob Thurman's infernally heroic Caliban Leandros takes a trip down memory lane as he deals wih some overdue-and nightmarish-vengeance involving some quite nasty Impossible Monsters. ALSO INCLUDES STORIES BY Tanya Huff * Kat Richardson * Jim C. Hines * Anton Strout * Lucy A. Snyder * Kristine Kathryn Rusch * Erik Scott de Bie *Cold Case by Jim Butcher "You understand what you must do," said Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. It wasn't phrased as a question. I gripped the handrail on the side of the yacht and held on as it whumped and thumped through choppy water on the way toward a bleak shore. "I get it," I told her. "Collect the tribute from the Miksani." Mab stared at me for a long moment, and that made me uncomfortable. It takes a lot to make that happen. I mean, you should see the stares my mother can give-Charity Carpenter is terrifying. And I got to where I could shake those off like nothing. "Lady Molly," Mab said. "Regard me." Not Look at me. Oh no. Not nearly dramatic enough. I looked up at her. We weren't around any mort...
