Naked City

Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection, Naked City, is not to be missed! Edited by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow.In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill, and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher's 'Curses' Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs' 'Fairy Gifts,' a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr's 'Guns for the Dead,' the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black's 'Noble Rot,' a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own.ContentsCurses, by Jim ButcherHow the Pooka Came to New York City, by Delia ShermanOn the Side, by Richard BowesThe Duke of Riverside, by Ellen KushnerOblivion by Calvin Klein, by Christopher FowlerFairy Gifts, by Patricia BriggsPicking Up the Pieces, by Pat CadiganUnderbridge, by Peter S. BeaglePriced to Sell, by Naomi NovikThe Bricks of Gelecek, by Matthew KresselWeston Walks, by Kit ReedThe Projected Girl, by Lavie TidharThe Way Station, by Nathan BallingrudGuns for the Dead, by Melissa MarrAnd Go Like This, by John CrowleyNoble Rot, by Holly BlackDaddy Longlegs of the Evening, by Jeffrey FordThe Skinny Girl, by Lucius ShepardThe Colliers' Venus (1893), by Caitlin R. KiernanKing Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree, by Elizabeth Bear