Mathilde Blackmore needs to move out of her mother’s house pronto, but her new home has to meet some specific requirements in order Young witch Malinda Hazelthorn excels with the wand but sucks at potions work. So naturally her project for the Witches and Warlocks Special Exhibit demands both. As if that isn’t enough, a…
Portia uses her magic to solve problems—theatrical problems. She prefers to work alone, even though her two sisters possess magic, too. But her latest job, in London’s West End, poses problems not only because of the play being performed—the cursed Scottish Play (aka Macbeth)—but because she must deal with a magic she has never seen…
When Cal is “sentenced” to spend her summer outside with a bunch of gawky kids and stinky cows, she’s certain there is no worse punishment. Life without her computer is no life at all. All her friends, at least the ones that matter, are online. There’s no one in the real world Cal wants to…
A heart-warming tale from Annie Reed, one of the founding members of The Uncollected Anthology, a quarterly publication of short fiction some of the best writers working in urban fantasy today. Rolo, a diminutive, courtly peddler of tourist trinkets, has at long last found the woman of his dreams. Unfortunately, she’s trapped in the belly…
Welcome to the eighties! A time when going off to University signified true independence, smoking in the dorm rooms, and partying. Tia has her eye on the resident hottie, Dana. Although she’s not terribly pretty, she hopes she can entice him in other ways. Find out what happens behind closed residence room doors in this…
Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts—in fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they’re kind of her only friends. Most ghosts stick around because they’re happy here and have no desire to move on…but sometimes, they need help. Like when a decades-dead Marilyn Monroe impersonator wants Nikki to find her granddaughter. In…
Lori recently moved into an old Victorian which, as is often the case with old houses, makes creaks and hisses and all kinds of noises. Occasionally she hears three knocks in a row, as if someone were knocking on a door, and every time that happens she swears she can smell the scent of roses….
As a half-Wyndling, Sky Patel already carefully stands with one foot in her beloved Edinburgh and one in the magical Wynd, a realm just on the other side of any Old Town alley (if you know how to get there). But now Sky must also protect the doorways between those two worlds. And when past…
In the ancient world of Gwyndor, the mysterious legends of the hutsu hunters are passed down by oral tradition. They are the centenarians of the Northern Peaks, the witch hunters who protect the land from practitioners of the darkest arts—man, woman, or otherworldly. Wynd is a hutsu, and she wears the battle scars to prove…
Carrie used to clean houses for a living. Mostly it was hard work but it was all right. But there was one house that was bad. Not the cleaning, although it was. But the house itself, from the creepy pictures to the barred and tinfoil-covered windows to the KEEP OUT signs all over…
