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This is an adult fantasy/sci-fi short story collection featuring darker themes and morally complex scenarios. While not extremely graphic, stories involve violence, kidnapping, and supernatural horror elements appropriate for older teens rather than younger readers. The collection explores moral ambiguity—characters doing questionable things for understandable reasons—which requires maturity to process.
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"In this dark and gritty collection--featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman--nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil ... Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line. In #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim... "In this dark and gritty collection--featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman--nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil ... Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line. 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"--
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- American Science fiction
- American fiction
- American Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Science fiction, american
- American fiction (collections), 21st century
- Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Adventure
- Fiction
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ISBN 9780451474995 · Roc