<div>Expand your vision of what a fantasy story can be with tales by Peter S. Beagle, Lucius Shepard, Catherynne M. Valente, Paul Di Filippo, and others. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology Inspired by the literary salons of eighteenth-century France, Salon Fantastique brings together renowned authors to create and share new tales that show the fantasy form at its best. The resulting stories form a conversation between established and emerging writers, historical and contemporary fiction, timeless folklore themes and the immediacy of modern politics, traditional linear narratives, and more experimental storytelling. Kicking off the collection is Delia Sherman&rsquo;s &ldquo;La F&eacute;e Verte,&rdquo; in which a nineteenth-century prostitute takes a lover among the other women in a Parisian bordello, a mysterious wraith who sees the past, present, and future. In Catherynne M. Valente&rsquo;s &ldquo;A Gray and Soundless Tide,&rdquo; a woman shelters a selkie and learns her tragic story, while in Paul Di Filippo&rsquo;s &ldquo;Femaville 29,&rdquo; a tsunami gives birth to a glorious new city rising from the imagination of children. In the intimate company of today&rsquo;s master fantasists, you&rsquo;ll be gifted with stories that will take the genre in directions you never could have imagined . . . &ldquo;Bring[s] together mostly new fantasy writers, most of them contributors to previous Datlow/Windling books and perhaps forming a distinct &lsquo;school.&rsquo; Call it American magic realism.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;A roster of fifteen contributors to make any lover of literary fantasy go weak at the knees. . . . an anthology that rewards reflection.&rdquo; &mdash;Strange Horizons</div>

Salon Fantastique

<div>A Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning anthology featuring twenty stories based on local legends and ghost stories from around the world. Wherever you&rsquo;re from, there are local stories of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, or some thing that people are afraid to talk about. You can dismiss them as old wives&rsquo; tales, and yet they stay with us, haunting our everyday lives. In Haunted Legends, these tales are brought disturbingly to life by some of the best horror and dark fantasy writers in the world. Among the contributors are award-winners Ramsey Campbell, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, and many others. Here are stories from America&rsquo;s big cities and small towns, as well as far-flung corners of the globe. Discover the fox spirits of Vietnam, the specter of communism still haunting Russia in the form of Comrade Beria&rsquo;s ghost, the famed vampires of Rhode Island, a haunted amusement park in the Pacific Northwest, the Indian ghost city of Fatehpur Sikri, and more.</div>

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