- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: DAW; Original edition (Dec 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 075640567X
- ISBN-13: 978-0756405670
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #807,235 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Venture into Spells of the City, where a troll may be your toll collector on the George Washington Bridge...Harry the Book will be happy to place your bets in a spellbinding alternative New York...a gargoyle finds himself left to a lonely rooftop existence when he's forced to live by his creator's rules...and leprechauns must become bank robbers to keep up with the demand for their gold.
About the Author
In 1995 Martin H. Greenberg was honored by the Mystery Writers of America with the Ellery Queen Award for lifetime achievement in mystery editing. He is also the recipient of two Anthony awards. Mystery Scene magazine called him "the best mystery anthologist since Ellery Queen." He has compiled more than 1,000 anthologies and is the president of TEKNO books. He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Magic cities, Mar 30 2010
By Chrijeff - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Spells Of The City (Mass Market Paperback)
This is one of those anthologies I'm glad I stuck with: of its 18 stories I marked 11 as worth rereading, but if I'd given up on it after the fourth or fifth the figure wouldn't have been anywhere near that. Jean Rabe and the eternally busy Martin Greenberg have assembled an assortment of stories themed to the idea that modern cities often conceal magic and magical beings, and they range from the mildly horrific to the rib-tickling and from New York (the scene of several) to London and Chicago to unnamed locales in North Carolina and southern Iowa. Among these are Timothy Zahn's "Trollbridge" (a troll who earns his living as a tollkeeper tries to find out who planted a bomb under his bridge), Mike Resnick's very Runyonesque "Snatch as Snatch Can" (a bookie tries to deal with an irate loser who has a wizard on his payroll), Marc Tassin's "Wee-Kin Warrior" (the story of a human gamer conscripted into a faery war), Mickey Zucker Reichert's "We Burgled It, Sure We Did" (a band of leprechauns takes to robbing banks in order to replenish their pots of gold), Jackie Cassada's "Rose" (a finder of lost pets learns that a dogfighting ring has sinister otherworldly connections), "An Excess of Joy" by C. J. Henderson (a motley group of musicians jams together to save the world from a Lovrcraftian extradimensional horror), "Stannis" by Anton Strout (a living gargoyle forges a bond with the descendant of the sculptor who created him), Bradley P. Beaulieu's "Good Morning Heartache" (a black mother desperate to save her trumpet-playing son from the gang life finds that isn't all that threatens him), Robert Wenzlaff's "Twas the Happy Hour After Christmas..." (Santa Claus and Thor meet in a bar), "Eli's Coming" by Linda P. Baker (another story of an animate gargoyle), and Vicki Steger's "Helvik's Deal" (Anne Boleyn's tarot deck surfaces in the modern world and bad things start happening). Like all anthologies, this one will probably appeal in different ways to different readers, but with Greenberg's name on the cover you can be sure it will offer good-quality work and present you with at least a few pieces you'll enjoy.
2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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good stories, Feb 7 2010
By Kelly Babcock "Shadowspun" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Spells Of The City (Mass Market Paperback)
Good mix of stories - some better than others but that is to be expected
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