Charles
de Lint
Charles Henri Diederick Hoefsmit de Lint
Charles de Lint was born in the Netherlands and came to Canada with his
family at the age of 4 months. He is mainly a fantasy writer but has been
known to cross over to Science Fiction and Horror on occasion. He has also
published poetry, columns and reviews. Charles pioneered a sub-genre called
Urban Fantasy. He has over fifty published books.
Charles has a very
lengthy list of awards and honours. Here's just a few; He won a Prix
Aurora Award for Jack, The Giant Killer and a HOMer award for
The Little Country. He has been a World Fantasy Award
finalist sixteen times for various novels, short stories and collections.
His collection Moonlight and Vines won the 1999 World Fantasy
Award and his novel The Onion Girl was a finalist for a 2002
World Fantasy Award in the best novel category.
Jack the Giant Killer
Jack the Giant Killer
Jim Warren
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Drink Down the Moon
Jim Warren
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Jack of Kinrowan
Thomas Canty
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Jack
the Giant Killer
A faceless gang of bikers on a
Wild Hunt through the streets of present day Ottawa hurtles Young Jacky
Rowan across the threshold into the perilous land of Faerie. There, to her
dismay, she is hailed as Jack of Kinrowan, a one-and-future trickster hero
whose lot is to save the Elven Courts from unimaginable evil.
Drink Down the Moon
Once the realm of Faerie drew its
power from the Moon herself. But now a ghastly creature has stolen that power
and enslaved the Fair Folk—and Jacky Rowan. Only Johnny Faw, a handsome young
fiddler unaware of his magical gifts, has the power to set them free.
Jack of Kinrowan
Jack the Giant Killer
Drink Down the Moon
Moonheart
Moonheart
Moonheart is a tale of romance, mystery, and adventure
that incorporates copious amounts of Welsh myth and Native American legend
in the Canadian dream-forests. Rich in adventure, the tale follows Sara
and her uncle Jamie as they discover secrets about their family, their House,
and the magic that has suddenly become entwined throughout their life. They
become caught up in one mage's ancient quest to end the life of another,
and must figure out a way to get out alive.
Spirit Walk
Ghost Walk
Ascian in Rose
Westlin Wind
Merlin Dreams in the Moondream Wood
Cerin Songweaver
Harp of the Grey Rose
Cliff Nielsen
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Harp of the Grey Rose
He is the Songweaver, but before he was a master of song
he was merely Cerin of Wran Cheaping-a seventeen-year-old orphan raised
by a wildland witch. Then he encountered the Maid of the Grey Rose-the lone
survivor of the war that devastated the Trembling Lands and the promised
bride of Yarac Stone-Slayer, the feared and terrible Waster. The mysterious
beauty captured Cerin's heart, drawing him into a world both dark and deadly,
until, armed with only a tinkerblade and the magic of song, he would take
on a man's challenge . . . and choose a treacherous path toward a magnificent
destiny.
Newford
The Dreaming Place
A young woman locked in rage yet seeking magic, Ash is drawn
into a wondrous Otherworld of totems and dryads, living tarots and mystic
charms. At the same time, Ash's cousin Nina is stalked by an Otherworld
demon-a manitou who can force her mind and soul into the bodies of beasts.
Ash must find the strength to overcome her own anger, learn the full power
of magic, and save Nina before she becomes the manitou's weapon, turning
the faerie realm into an arctic wasteland.
Dreams
Underfoot
Uncle Dobbin’s Parrot Fair
Stone Drum
Timeskip
Freewheeling
That Explains Poland
Romano Drom
The Sacred Fire
Winter Was Hard
Pity the Monsters
Ghosts of Wind and Shadow
The Conjure Man
Small Deaths
The Moon Is Drowning While I Sleep
In the House of My Enemy
But for the Grace Go I
Bridges
Our Lady of the Harbour
Paperjack
Tallulah
Memory and Dream
Memory and Dream is the story of Isabelle Copley, a young
artist who once lived in the bohemian quarter of the northern city of Newford.
As a student of Vincent Rushkin, a cruel but gifted painter, she discovered
an awesome power - to craft images so real that they came to life. With
her paintbrush she called into being the wild spirits of the wood, made her
dreams come true with canvas and paint. But when the forces she unleashed
brought unexpected tragedy to those she loved, she ran away from Newford,
turning her back on her talent - and on her dreams. Now, twenty years later,
the power of Newford has reached out to draw her back. To fulfill a promise
to a long-dead friend, Isabelle must come to terms with the shattering memories
she has long denied, and unlock the slumbering power of her brush. She must
accept her true feelings for her newfound lover John Sweetgrass, a handsome
young Native American who is the image of her most intense imaginings. And,
in a dark reckoning with her old master, she must find the courage to live
out her dreams, and bring the magic back to life.
The Ivory and the Horn
Waifs and Strays
Mr. Truepenny’s Book Emporium and Gallery
The Forest Is Crying
The Wishing Well
Dead Man’s Shoes
Bird Bones and Wood Ash
A Tempest in Her Eyes
Saxophone Joe and the Woman in Black
The Bone Woman
Pal o’ Mine
Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night
Dream Harder, Dream True
The Pochade Box
Coyote Stories
The Forever Trees
Trader
Max Trader is a solitary, quiet, responsible guitar maker.
Johnny Devlin is a lady-killer, a drunk, and a chronically unemployed, but
charming, loser. When they inexplicably awake in each others' bodies, Devlin
gleefully moves into Trader's comfortable and stable existence, leaving
Trader penniless, friendless, and homeless, with no place left to go but
beyond the streets of Newford to an otherworld of dreams and spirits--where
he must confront both the unscrupulous Devlin and his own deepest fears.
Someplace to be Flying
Here is Lily, a photojournalist in search of the "animal
people" who supposedly haunt the city's darkest slums. Here is Hank, who
knows those slums all too well. One night, in a brutal incident, their lives
collide--uptown Lily and downtown Hank, each with a quest and a role to
play in the secret drama of the city's oldest inhabitants.
For the animal people walk among us. Native Americans call them the
First People, but they have never left, and they claim the city for their
own. Not only have Hank and Lily stumbled onto a secret, they've stumbled
into a war. And in this battle for the city's soul, nothing is quite as
it appears.
Moonlight and Vines
Sweetgrass & City Streets
Saskia
In This Soul of a Woman
The Big Sky
Birds
Passing
Held Safe by Moonlight and Vines
In the Pines
Shining Nowhere but in the Dark
If I Close My Eyes Forever
Heartfires
The Invisibles
Seven for a Secret
Crow Girls
Wild Horses
In the Land of the Unforgiven
My Life as a Bird
China Doll
In the Quiet After Midnight
The Pennymen
Two Corbies
The Fields Beyond the Fields
The Buffalo Man
When the unconscious body of a man with buffalo blood appears in Newford,
the Crow sisters try to release him from entrapment in the spirit world.
Forests of the Heart
In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry, ancient
spirits of the land. Now they've come to America and still wander homeless
on the city streets. Gathering in the shadows, magical, amoral, and dangerous,
they appear to those who have the sight as they bide their time and dream
of power.
The Onion Girl
The Onion Girl focuses on the ubiquitous artist and friendly
soul, Jilly Coppercorn. After a bad car accident that leaves Jilly temporarily
crippled, she discovers that part of the past she has tried so hard to forget
has come back to haunt her. Aided by her friends, she must discover through
dreams and memories how to deal with what she has left behind, if she is
ever to truly heal, and become who she once was.
Tapping the Dream Tree
Ten for the Devil
Wingless Angels
The Words That Remain
Many Worlds Are Born Tonight
The Buffalo Man
Second Chances
Forest of Stone
Embracing the Mystery
Masking Indian
Granny Weather
The Witching Hour
Pixel Pixies
Trading Hearts at the Half Kaffe Café
Making a Noise in This World
Freak
Big City Littles
Sign Here
Seven Wild Sisters
Spirits in the Wires
And at the heart of Spirits in the Wires are Saskia
Madding and Christiana Tree, both of whom are tied to perennial Newford
character, the writer Christy Riddell. Are either Saskia or Christiana real?
Christy's girlfriend, Saskia, believes she was born in a Web site, while
Christiana is Christy's "shadow-self"--all the parts of him that he cast
out when he was seven years old.
At a popular Newford on-line research and library Web site called the
Wordwood, a mysterious "crash" occurs. Everyone visiting the site at the
moment of the crash vanishes from where they were sitting in front of their
computers. Saskia disappears right before Christy's eyes, along with countless
others.
Now Christy and his companions must journey into Newford's otherworld,
where the Wordwood, it transpires, has a physical presence of its own...to
rescue their missing friends and loved ones and to set this viral spirit
right before it causes further harm.
The Blue Girl
Seventeen-year-old Imogene's tough, rebellious nature has
caused her more harm than good -- so when her family moves to Newford, she
decides to reinvent herself. She won't lose her punk/thrift-shop look, but
she'll try to avoid the gangs, work a little harder at school, and maybe
even stay out of trouble for a change.
Her first friend at Redding High, Maxine, is her exact opposite. Everyone
considers Maxine a straight-A loser, but as Imogene soon learns, it's really
Maxine's overprotective mother whose rules about clothes and curfews make
it impossible for her to speak up for her true self. Oddly, the friendship
works. Imogene helps Maxine loosen up and break a few rules, and in turn,
Maxine keeps Imogene in line.
But trouble shows up anyway. Imogene quickly catches the eye of Redding's
A-list bullies, as well as the school's resident teenage ghost. Then she
gets on the wrong side of a gang of malicious fairies. When her old imaginary
childhood friend Pelly actually manifests, Imogene realises that the impossible
is all too real. And it's dangerous. If she wants to survive high school
-- not to mention stay alive -- she has to fall back on the skills she picked
up in her hometown, running with a gang. Even with Maxine and some unexpected
allies by her side, will she be able to make it?
Widdershins
Jilly Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced
in the first Newford story, "Timeskip," back in 1989, their friends and
readers alike have been waiting for them to realize what everybody else already
knows: that they belong together. But they've been more clueless about how
they feel for each other than the characters in When Harry Met Sally.
Now in Widdershins, a stand-alone novel of fairy courts set in shopping
malls and the Bohemian street scene of Newford's Crowsea area, Jilly and
Geordie’s story is finally being told.
Before it’s over, we’ll find ourselves plunged into the rancorous and
sometimes violent conflict between the magical North American “animal people”
and the more newly-arrived fairy folk. We’ll watch as Jilly is held captive
in a sinister world based on her own worst memories—and Geordie, attempting
to help, is sent someplace even worse. And we’ll be captivated by the power
of love and determination to redeem ancient hatreds and heal old magics gone
sour.
To walk “widdershins” is to walk counterclockwise or backwards around
something. It’s a classic pathway into the fairy realm. It’s also the way
people often back slowly into the relationships that matter, the real ones
that make for a life.
The Hour Before Dawn
The Hour Before Dawn
That Was Radio Clash
The Butter Sprit’s Tithe
Old Man Crow
Joey Creel needs to decide which
he is: a man, dreaming he's a crow, or a crow, dreaming he's a man. Ruby
McCaulay, the young musician he's mentoring, is sure she knows the answer,
but in Newford, things are never quite as they seem.
Little Grrl Lost
When fourteen-year-old TJ and her family are forced to move
from their farm to the suburbs, she has to give up her beloved horse, Red—but
she makes a surprising new friend. Elizabeth is a "Little," a six-inch-high
punked-out teen with an attitude, who has run away from home to make her
way in the world. TJ and Elizabeth—the Big and the Little—soon become friends,
but each quickly finds herself in a truly life-threatening situation, and
they are unable to help each other.
Promises to Keep
The book takes place in 1972 and
begins with Jilly getting a surprise visit from an old friend—her only friend—from
her runaway days. Interspersed with the main story that leads off from
that meeting are flashbacks to pivotal moments in her life: time spent in
the Home for Wayward Girls, her life on the street, meeting and working with
the Grasso Street Angel, the first time she meets various familiar faces
(Geordie, Sophie, etc.). You'll find out how the messed-up street kid she
was grew a social conscience, and became the cheerful character we know from
later stories.
Dingo
High school senior Miguel's life
is turned upside down when he meets new girl Lainey, whose family has just
moved from Australia. With her tumbled red-gold hair, her instant understanding
of who he is, and her unusual dog—with fur the same colour as her hair—Lainey
is unforgettable. And, as he quickly learns, she is on the run from an ancient
bargain made by her ancestors. There's no question that Miguel will do
whatever he can to help her—but what price will each of them have to pay?
The Newford Stories
The Newford Stories contains the stories that
appeared in Dreams Underfoot, The Ivory and the Horn
and Moonlight and Vines.
Samuel M Key
Angel of Darkness
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From a Whisper to a Scream
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I'll Be Watching You
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Angel of Darkness
When ex-cop Jack Keller finds the mutilated body of a runaway
girl in the ashes of a bizarre house fire, he opens the door to a nightmare.
For a sadistic experiment in terror has unleashed a dark avenging angel
forged from the agonies of countless dying victims....
From a Whisper to a
Scream
Years after the death of a notorious child murderer, children
have begun to die again...and a crime photographer begins to suspect he
has the one true clue that connects the horrific events.
I'll Be Watching You
Rachael Sorenson
feared she would never escape her ex-husband's abuse. Then a passing stranger
came to her rescue---a stranger who had watched her from afar.
He was a photographer, and Rachael was his perfect subject. He lived
only to make her happy---and eliminate those who didn't.
Now he wants more than her beauty. She owes him her life---and he means
to collect.
Novels
The Riddle of the Wren
Minda Sealy is afraid to go to sleep, for when she does she
is trapped inside the same terrible, dark nightmare. Over and over it happens,
until she is ragged and raw. Then, one night, she dreams she is somewhere
else — walking a high, peaceful moor. There she meets Jan, the "heart of
the moors," who has been imprisoned by Ildran the Dreammaster — the same
being who controls Minda's nightmares.
In exchange for her promise to free him, Jan gives Minda three things:
a new name, Talenyn, meaning "Little Wren"; a pouch of pebbles that can
function as a gate between worlds; and an acorn pendant that will keep the
evil Ildran from invading her dreams. Minda sets out the very next night,
leaving the safety of her old life to begin a journey from world to world,
a journey both to save Jan and to solve "the riddle of the Wren" — which is
the riddle of her very self.
Mulengro
The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police—but
each death is somehow connected with the city’s elusive Gypsy community.
The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better.
They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro.
Yarrow: An Autumn Tale
Cat Midhir has made a name for herself as the author of many
popular fantasy novels. When a thief steals Cat's mysterious Otherworld--a
real place where she wandered at night with bright lords and the horned
woman--she cannot write and becomes trapped in the everyday world.
Wolf Moon
His name when he was human was Kern. Now he is the most feared
of beings: a werewolf. When the change first came upon him, his parents
drove him away with silver daggers. Later, he sought human companionship,
but he could not hide the truth for long. And so he kept running until he
ran headlong into the deadliest pursuer of all—a harper bent on stealing
his life away. By chance Kern was able to find refuge at the Inn of the Yellow
Tinker, and the woman he was destined to love. But can he risk both human
and harper vengeance to keep her?
Greenmantle
Not far from the city lies an ancient wood, forgotten by
the rest of the world, where mystery walks in the shape of a horned man
wearing a cloak of leaves. And, when this man touches your dreams, your life
will never be the same again.
Svaha
Out beyond the Enclaves, in the desolation between the cities,
an Indian flyer has been downed. A chip encoded with vital secrets is missing.
Only Gahzee can venture forth to find him - walking the line between the
Dreamtime and the Realtime, bringing his people's ancient magic to bear on
the poisoned world of tomorrow.
The Little Country
When folk musician Janey Little finds a mysterious manuscript
in an old trunk in her grandfather's cottage, she is swept into a dangerous
realm both strange and familiar. But true magic lurks within the pages of
The Little Country, drawing genuine danger from across the oceans
into Janey's life, impelling her - armed only with her music - toward a terrifying
confrontation.
Come walk the mist-draped hills of Cornwall, come walk among the ancient
standing stones. Listen to the fiddles, the wind, and the sea.
Into the Green
A young woman travels through the Kingdoms of the Green Isles
with a witch staff in her hand, a harp on her back, a puzzle to solve, and
a quest to fulfill. Magic abounds in the land--but within magic, there is
also danger...
A Circle of Cats
Twelve-year-old
Lillian, an orphan who loves roaming the woods looking for fairies when
her chores are done, is bitten by a deadly snake and saved through the magical
forest creatures.
The Mystery of Grace
Grace works at Sanchez Motor Works, customizing hot rods.
A few blocks around her small apartment building is all her world—from
the grocery store where she buys beans, tamales and cigarettes to the library,
the little record shop, and the Solona Music Hall. Which is where she meets
John Burns, just two weeks too late.
Grace and John fall for one another, and that would be wonderful, except
that they're both haunted by unfinished business. Before their relationship
can be resolved, they're both going to have to learn things they don't know
about the world of the living and the world beyond. About why it's necessary
to let some things go. Altagracia—her friends
call her Grace—has a tattoo of Nuestra Señora de Altagracia on her
shoulder; she's got a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg; and
she has grease worked so deep into her hands that'll never wash out.
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Triskell Tales
MaryAnn Harris
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Waifs and Strays
John Jude Palencar
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A Handful of Coppers
MaryAnn Harris
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Qucksilver and Shadow
MaryAnn Harris
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Triskell Tales 2
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Woods and Waters Wild
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What the Mouse Found and Other Stories
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Triskell Tales
Waifs and Strays
Tamson House, Ottawa, Ontario
Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood
Ottawa and the Valley
There’s No Such Thing
Sisters
Fairy Dust
A Wish Named Arnold
Wooden Bones
Otherworlds: Past and Future
The Graceless Child
A Tattoo on Her Heart
Bordertown
Stick
May This Be Your Last Sorrow
Newford: In and Out of the City
One Chance
Alone
But for the Grace Go I
Ghosts of Wind and Shadow
Waifs and Strays
Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box
A Handful of Coppers
Qucksilver and Shadow
Triskell Tales 2
Woods and Waters Wild
What the Mouse Found and
Other Stories
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