Down These Strange Streets: Stories of Urban Fantasy

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A collection of urban fantasy stories from some of the freshest and raciest writers around, including Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Diana Gabaldon and many more. In Charlaine Harris' tale 'Death by Dahlia', set in the world of Sookie Stackhouse, vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers heads to a lavish party which soon turns deadly. Patricia Briggs, author of the Mercy Thompson series (Orbit) presents a thrilling tale of 'In Red, With Pearls' where a werewolf PI races to crack a case involving zombies, witches and horrifying lawyers!

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Some of the top names in urban fantasy are joined by some of todays best historical mystery writers in this top-notch anthology.Publishers Weekly

Urban fantasy in a nourish veinThis is a pretty strong collection.Locus

Theres lots [of stories], some in the past, some in the future, and all entertaining as you get to read old favorite characters or are introduced to new ones. I always enjoy anthologies for the variety in the stories and this one provides plenty, but all with a paranormal detective bent.News and Sentinel

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George R. R. Martin has been called "the American Tolkien," and his books, including the volumes in his landmark A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, have been on bestseller lists around the world and inspired the HBO award-winning series Game of Thrones.He's won four Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. As editor, he's produced the very long-running Wild Cards original anthology series as well as the New Voices series and others. He's also worked for Hollywood and television, being part of the creative team behind such shows as Beauty and the Beast and the new The Twilight Zone. Gardner Dozois has won fifteen Hugo Awards and twenty-eight Locus Awards for his editing work, plus two Nebula Awards and the Sidewise Award for his own writing. He was the editor of the leading science fiction magazine Asimov's Science Fiction for twenty years and is also the editor of the annual anthology series The Year's Best Science Fiction, now in its Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection. He is the author or editor of more than a hundred books.