<b>Featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman, this dark and gritty “must-read anthology for UF fans”(<i>RT Book Reviews</i>) proves that nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil...<br><br></b>In #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Jim Butcher’s <i>Cold Case</i>, 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...<br><br><i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Seanan McGuire’s <i>Sleepover </i>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.<br><br>In <i>New York Times</i> bestselling Kevin J. Anderson’s <i>Eye of Newt</i>, 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...<br><br>And <i>New York Times </i>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 <i>Impossible Monsters</i>.<br><br><b>ALSO INCLUDES STORIES BY<br></b><br><b>Tanya Huff * Kat Richardson * Jim C. Hines * Anton Strout * Lucy A. Snyder * Kristine Kathryn Rusch * Erik Scott de Bie *</b>