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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Ben Aaronovitch
• Rivers of London No. 4: Broken Homes

Mario Acevedo
• The Nymphos of Rocky Flats

C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp
• Captive Moon
• Touch of Evil

Douglas Adams
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

John Adcox
• Raven Wakes the World: A Winter Tale

Melissa Albert
• The Children

David Almond
• Skellig

Christine Amsden
• Touch of Fate

Ilona Andrews
• Kate Daniels #1: Magic Bites
• Kate Daniels #2: Magic Burns

Alex Archer
• Rogue Angel #1: Destiny
• Rogue Angel #2: Solomon's Jar
• Rogue Angel #3: The Spider Stone
• Rogue Angel #4: The Chosen

Kelley Armstrong
• Angelic
• Women of the Otherworld #1: Bitten
• Women of the Otherworld #2: Stolen
• Women of the Otherworld #3: Dime Store Magic
• Women of the Otherworld #4: Industrial Magic
• Women of the Otherworld #5: Haunted
• Women of the Otherworld #6: Broken
• Women of the Otherworld #7: No Humans Involved
• Women of the Otherworld #8: Personal Demon
• Women of the Otherworld #9: Living with the Dead
• Women of the Otherworld #12: Spell Bound

Steve Augarde
• The Various

Richard Bach
• Illusions

Camille Bacon-Smith
• Eyes of the Empress
• The Face of Time

Alison Baird
• The Hidden World

Nancy Baker
• Blood & Chrysanthemums
• The Night Inside (also published as Kiss of the Vampire)

L.A. Banks
• My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
• Vampire Huntress #1: Minion
• Vampire Huntress #2: The Awakening
• Vampire Huntress #3: The Hunted

Nick Bantock
• The Venetian's Wife

Adrienne Barbeau & Michael Scott
• Vampyres of Hollywood

Peter S. Beagle
• A Dance for Emilia
• Tamsin

Elizabeth Bear
• Promethean Age #1: Blood & Iron
• Promethean Age #2: Whiskey & Water
• Promethean Age #3: Ink & Steel
• Promethean Age #4: Hell & Earth
• Shadow Unit: Season One

Greg Bear
• Dinosaur Summer

Lyn Benedict
• Sins & Shadows

Nigel Bennett & P.N. Elrod
• Keeper of the King

Alicia Benson
• The First Vampire: A Novel of Samson & Delilah

Amber Benson & Christopher Golden
• Ghosts of Albion: Accursed
• Ghosts of Albion: Initiation
• Ghosts of Albion: Witchery
• The Seven Whistlers

Elaine Bergstrom
• The Door Through Washington Square

David Bischoff, Rich Brown & Linda Richardson
• A Personal Demon

Michael Bishop
• Unicorn Mountain

Holly Black
• Ironside
• Tithe
• Valiant

Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #1: The Field Guide
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #2: The Seeing Stone
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #3: Lucinda's Secret
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #4: The Ironwood Tree
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #5: The Wrath of Mulgarath

Jenna Black
• Dark Descendant
• Guardians of the Night #1: Watchers in the Night
• Guardians of the Night #2: Secrets in the Shadows
• Guardians of the Night #3: Shadows on the Soul
• Morgan Kingsley, Exorcist #1: The Devil Inside

James P. Blaylock
• The Rainy Season
• Thirteen Phantasms

James P. Blaylock, with Adriana Campoy, Brittany Cox & Alex Haniford
• Metamorphosis

Francesca Lia Block
• Blood Roses
• Echo
• House of Dolls
• I Was a Teenage Fairy
• Nymph
• Pretty Dead
• The Rose & the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
• The Waters & the Wild

Edward Bloor
• Story Time

Richard Bowes
• From the Files of the Time Rangers
• Minions of the Moon

Herbie Brennan
• Faerie Wars

D. Barkley Briggs
• Legends of Karac Tor: The Book of Names

Patricia Briggs
• Alpha & Omega
• Mercy Thompson #1: Moon Called
• Mercy Thompson #2: Blood Bound
• Mercy Thompson #3: Iron Kissed

Patricia Briggs, Eileen Wilks, Karen Chance, Sunny
• On the Prowl

Kevin Brockmeier
• The Brief History of the Dead

Terry Brooks
• The Word & the Void #1: Running with the Demon
• The Word & the Void #2: A Knight of the Word
• The Word & the Void #3: Angel Fire East

S.G. Browne
• Breathers: A Zombie's Lament

Steven Brust
• Agyar

Rick Buda
• WolfPointe

Margaret Buffie
• The Watcher

Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Master & Margarita

Emma Bull
• Finder
• Shadow Unit: Season One
• Territory
• War for the Oaks

Kealan Patrick Burke
• The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

Jim Butcher
• The Dresden Files #1: Storm Front
• The Dresden Files #2: Fool Moon
• The Dresden Files #3: Grave Peril
• The Dresden Files #4: Summer Knight
• The Dresden Files #5: Death Masks
• The Dresden Files #6: Blood Rites
• The Dresden Files #7: Dead Beat
• The Dresden Files #8: Proven Guilty
• The Dresden Files #9: White Night
• The Dresden Files #10: Small Favor
• The Dresden Files #11: Turn Coat
• The Dresden Files #12: Changes
• The Dresden Files #13: Ghost Story
• The Dresden Files: Backup
• The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle, illustrated by Ardian Syaf
• My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
• Side Jobs

Rachel Caine
• Devil's Bargain
• Devil's Due
• The Morganville Vampires #1: Glass Houses
• The Morganville Vampires #2: Dead Girl's Dance
• The Morganville Vampires #3: Midnight Alley
• The Morganville Vampires #9: Ghost Town
• My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
• Outcast Season #1: Undone
• The Undead
• Weather Warden #1: Ill Wind
• Weather Warden #2: Heat Stroke
• Weather Warden #3: Chill Factor
• Weather Warden #4: Windfall
• Weather Warden #5: Firestorm
• Weather Warden #6: Thin Air

Mayra Calvani
• Embraced by the Shadows

Roy Campbell
• Song of the Jackalope

Orson Scott Card
• Enchantment
• Magic Street

Isobelle Carmody
• Little Fur: The Legend Begins

Jonathan Carroll
• Bones of the Moon
• The Ghost in Love
• The Land of Laughs
• The Marriage of Sticks
• The Wooden Sea

Michael Chabon
• Summerland
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Karen Chance
• Claimed by Shadow
• Touch the Dark

Karen Chance, Patricia Briggs, Eileen Wilks, Sunny
• On the Prowl

Cassandra Clare
• The Mortal Instruments #1: City of Bones
• The Mortal Instruments #2: City of Ashes
• The Mortal Instruments #3: City of Glass

Will Clarke
• The Worthy: A Ghost's Story

Molly Cochran & Warren Murphy
• The Forever King

Susan Cooper
• The Boggart
• The Dark is Rising #3: Greenwitch
• King Of Shadows

Paul Cornell
• London Falling

Charlene Costanzo
• The Thirteenth Gift

Ron Costello
• The Junto: Racing to the Bell

F. Brett Cox & Andy Duncan, editors
• Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic

Cindy Cruciger
• Revenge Gifts

Marianne Curley
• The Named

Keith Cymry
• Hope in a Nutshell

Anna Dale
• Whispering to Witches

Kara Dalkey
• Crystal Sage
• Steel Rose

Victoria Dalpe
• Resurrectionist #1: Selene Shade: Resurrectionist for Hire

Shirley Damsgaard
• Ophelia & Abby #2: Charmed to Death
• Ophelia & Abby #3: The Trouble with Witches
• Ophelia & Abby #4: Witch Hunt

Sheila A. Dane
• Fairy Hunters, Ink.

Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors
• The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
• Salon Fantastique
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 11th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 12th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 13th edition
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 14th edition

Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, editors
• The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, 18th annual edition

Peter David
• Howling Mad
• Knight Life
• One Knight Only
• Tigerheart

MaryJanice Davidson
• Derik's Bane
• Sleeping with the Fishes
• Swimming Without a Net
• Undead & Unwed
• Undead & Unemployed
• Undead & Unappreciated

Pamela Dean
• Juniper, Gentian & Rosemary
• Tam Lin

Tom Deitz
• Windmaster's Bane

Melissa de la Cruz
• Blue Bloods #4: The Van Allen Legacy

Mark Del Franco
• Connor Grey #1: Unshapely Things

Charles de Lint
• Angel of Darkness, writing as Samuel M. Key
• The Blue Girl
• The Cats of Tanglewood Forest, illustrated by Charles Vess
• A Circle of Cats, illustrated by Charles Vess
• Crow Girls
• Dingo
• The Dreaming Place
• Dreams Underfoot
• Forests of the Heart
• Greenmantle
• The Hour Before Dawn
• ICE Out
• The Ivory & the Horn
• Jack in the Green
• Jack of Kinrowan
(omnibus: Jack the Giant-Killer, Drink Down the Moon)
• Juniper Wiles
• Juniper Wiles & the Ghost Girls
• Juniper Wiles Does Not Want to Be Queen
• The Little Country
• Little (Grrl) Lost
• Medicine Road, illustrated by Charles Vess
• Memory & Dream
• Moonheart
• Moonlight & Vines
• Mulengro
• The Mystery of Grace
• The Newford Stories
(omnibus: Dreams Underfoot, The Ivory & the Horn, Moonlight & Vines)
• Newford Stories: Crow Girls
• Old Man Crow
• The Onion Girl
• The Painted Boy
• Promises to Keep
• Quicksilver & Shadow
• Seven Wild Sisters
• Someplace to be Flying
• Spirits in the Wires
• Spiritwalk
• Svaha
• Tapping the Dream Tree
• Trader
• Triskell Tales: 22 Years of Chapbooks
• Triskell Tales 2
• Waifs & Strays
• What the Mouse Found & Other Stories
• Widdershins
• The Wild Wood, illustrated by Brian Froud
• Yarrow

Nicole Del Sesto
• All Encompassing Trip

Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #1: The Field Guide
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #2: The Seeing Stone
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #3: Lucinda's Secret
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #4: The Ironwood Tree
• The Spiderwick Chronicles #5: The Wrath of Mulgarath

Robyn & Tony DiTocco
• Atlas' Revenge
• The Hero Perseus

Carole Nelson Douglas
• Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator #1: Dancing with Werewolves

Emily Drake
• The Magickers
• The Magickers #2: The Curse of Arkady
• The Magickers #3: The Dragon Guard
• The Magickers #4: The Gate of Bones

Jocelynn Drake
• Dark Days #3: Dawnbreaker

Glen Duncan
• I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story

Frederic Durbin
• Dragonfly

P.N. Elrod & Nigel Bennett
• Keeper of the King

Michael Ende
• Momo

Louise Erdrich
• The Antelope Wife

Laura Esquivel
• The Law of Love
• Like Water for Chocolate

Doug Farrell
• Glamour Job: A Fairy-Tale for Grown-ups

Mick Farren
• Darklost
• The Time of Feasting

Heather Fawcett
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries

Jasper Fforde
• Jack Spratt Investigates: The Big Over Easy
• Jack Spratt Investigates: The Fourth Bear
• Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair
• Thursday Next: Lost in a Good Book
• Thursday Next: The Well of Lost Plots
• Thursday Next: Something Rotten

Catherine Fisher
• Darkhenge

Marina Fitch
• The Border

Sheree Fitch
• The Gravesavers

John M. Ford
• The Last Hot Time

Michael Thomas Ford
• Jane Bites Back

Alan Dean Foster
• To the Vanishing Point

Melissa Francis
• Bite Me!

Bob Freeman
• Cairnwood Manor, Book I: Shadows Over Somerset

Emma Gabor
• Predatoress

Neil Gaiman
• American Gods
• Anansi Boys
• Good Omens, with Terry Pratchett
• The Graveyard Book
• Neverwhere
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Yasmine Galenorn
• Sisters of the Moon #1: Witchling
• Sisters of the Moon #2: Changeling

Alan Garner
• The Owl Service

James Finn Garner
• Politically Correct Holiday Stories for an Enlightened Yuletide Season

Chris Genoa
• Foop!

Adele Geras
• Egerton Hall, Book 1: The Tower Room

K.L. Going
• The Garden of Eve

Christopher Golden
• Ghosts of Albion: Accursed, with Amber Benson
• Ghosts of Albion: Initiation, with Amber Benson
• Ghosts of Albion: Witchery, with Amber Benson
• The Seven Whistlers, with Amber Benson

Lisa Goldstein
• Dark Cities Underground
• Walking the Labyrinth

Jewelle Gomez
• The Gilda Stories

Laurence Gonzales
• Lucy

Richard Grant
• In the Land of Winter
• Kaspian Lost
• Tex & Molly in the Afterlife

Cheryl Gray
• Barefootin': A Caribbean Tale of the Paranormal

Simon R. Green
• Nightside #1: Something from the Nightside
• Nightside #2: Agents of Light & Darkness
• Nightside #3: Nightingale's Lament
• Nightside #4: Hex & the City
• Nightside #5: Paths Not Taken
• Nightside #6: Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
• Nightside #7: Hell to Pay
• Nightside #8: The Unnatural Inquirer

Daryl Gregory
• Pandemonium

Ken Grimwood
• Replay

Louis N. Gruber
• Jay: A Spiritual Fantasy

Talia Gryphon
• Gillian Key, ParaDoc #1: Key to Conflict

Paula Guran, editor
• The Best New Paranormal Romance

Justin Gustainis
• Black Magic Woman

Ann Halam
• Snakehead

Tate Hallaway
• Garnet Lacey #1: Tall, Dark & Dead
• Garnet Lacey #2: Dead Sexy
• Garnet Lacey #3: Romancing the Dead
• Garnet Lacey #4: Dead If I Do

Winifred Halsey, editor
• Heaven & Hell

Laurell K. Hamilton
• Guilty Pleasures
• Incubus Dreams
• A Kiss of Shadows
• Obsidian Butterfly

Elmore Hammes
• The Holmes & Watson Mysterious Events & Objects Consortium: The Case of the Witch's Talisman

Dani Harper
• Dark Wolf No. 1: First Bite

Charlaine Harris
• Harper Connelly Mysteries #1: Grave Sight
• Harper Connelly Mysteries #2: Grave Surprise
• Harper Connelly Mysteries #3: An Ice Cold Grave
• My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
• Southern Vampire #1: Dead Until Dark
• Southern Vampire #2: Living Dead in Dallas
• Southern Vampire #3: Club Dead
• Southern Vampire #4: Dead to the World
• Southern Vampire #5: Dead as a Doornail
• Southern Vampire #6: Definitely Dead
• Southern Vampire #7: All Together Dead
• Southern Vampire #8: From Dead to Worse

Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner, editors
• Many Bloody Returns

Kim Harrison
• Rachel Morgan #1: Dead Witch Walking
• Rachel Morgan #2: The Good, the Bad & the Undead
• Rachel Morgan #3: Every Which Way But Dead
• Rachel Morgan #4: A Fistful of Charms
• Rachel Morgan #5: For a Few Demons More

Rachel Hawthorne
• Dark Guardians #1: Moonlight

Julie Hearn
• Sign of the Raven

Rhiannon Held
• Silver

Sheila Hendrix
• Bad Company

Bruce Hennigan
• Jonathan Steel Chronicles #2: The 12th Demon: Vampyre Majick

James A. Hetley
• Stonefort #1: Dragon's Eye
• Stonefort #2: Dragon's Teeth
• The Summer Country
• The Winter Oak

Jason Hightman
• The Saint of Dragons

Debora Elizabeth Hill & Sandra Brandenburg
• Lost Myths Saga, Vol. I: The Land of the Wand

T.L. Hines
• Waking Lazarus

Alice Hoffman
• The Probable Future
• Water Tales
(omnibus: Aquamarine, Indigo)

Mary Hoffman
• Stravaganza: City of Masks
• Stravaganza: City of Stars

Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• A Fistful of Sky
• A Red Heart of Memories
• The Silent Strength of Stones
• The Thread That Binds the Bones

Robert Holdstock
• The Hollowing
• Mythago Wood

Tom Holt
• Djinn Rummy
• Expecting Someone Taller
• Faust Among Equals
• Flying Dutch
• Grailblazers
• Little People
• The Management Style of the Supreme Beings
• My Hero
• Nothing But Blue Skies
• Only Human
• Open Sesame
• Overtime
• Paint Your Dragon
• The Portable Door
• Snow White & the Seven Samurai
• Valhalla
• When It's a Jar
• Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
• Wish You Were Here

Nancy Holzner
• Bloodstone
• Deadtown

J.E. Hopkins
• Lover's Betrayal

Nalo Hopkinson & Geoff Ryman, editors
• Tesseracts Nine

Colleen Houck
• Tiger's Curse
• Tiger's Quest

David L. Howells
• Vanessa
• Vanessa: Family Tree
• Vanessa: All Heaven Breaks Loose
• Vanessa: Mended Harps
• Vanessa: Fallen Colors

Tanya Huff
• Blood Ties #1: Blood Price
• Blood Ties #2: Blood Trail
• Blood Ties #3: Blood Lines
• Blood Ties #4: Blood Pact
• Blood Ties #5: Blood Debt
• Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light
• The Keeper's Chronicles #1: Summon the Keeper
• The Keeper's Chronicles #2: The Second Summoning
• The Keeper's Chronicles #3: Long Hot Summoning
• Smoke #1: Smoke & Shadows
• Smoke #2: Smoke & Mirrors
• Smoke #3: Smoke & Ashes

Eva Ibbotson
• The Secret of Platform 13

Joseph Incardona
• Holy F*ck

Stacey Jay
• Dead on the Delta

Susan B. Johnson
• Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting

Diana Wynne Jones
• Deep Secret
• Witch Week

Graham Joyce
• Dark Sister
• Indigo
• Requiem
• The Tooth Fairy

Richard Kadrey
• Sandman Slim

Lauren Kate
• Fallen

Susan Kearney
• Midnight Magic, with Rebecca York & Jeanie London

Julie Kenner
• Carpe Demon

Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Dark Hunter #7: Seize the Night

Jackie Kessler
• Hell on Earth #1: Hell's Belles
• Hell on Earth #2: The Road to Hell
• Hell on Earth #3: Hotter Than Hell

Stephen King
• Blockade Billy
• 11/22/63

Karen Koehler
• Slayer

Robert Kroese
• Mercury Falls

Mercedes Lackey
• Burning Water
• Knight of Ghosts & Shadows, with Ellen Guon
• Jinx High
• Sacred Ground

James Richard Larson
• The Right Thing

Michael Lawrence
• Withern Rise #1: A Crack in the Line

Jonathan Lethem
• The Fortress of Solitude

Paul Levinson
• It's Real Life: An Alternate History of the Beatles
• The Plot to Save Socrates

Maria Lima
• Blood Lines #1: Matters of the Blood

Jane Lindskold
• Changer

Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, editors
• The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Holly Lisle
• Last Girl Dancing
• Night Echoes

Denise Little, editor
• Familiars
• The Magic Shop
• The Sorcerer's Academy

Marjorie M. Liu
• Hunter Kiss #3: A Wild Light

Roxanne Longstreet
• The Undead

Janet Lorimer
• Master of Shadows

Valerie Rolfe Lupini
• The Whistle

Katie MacAlister
• Aisling Grey, Guardian #1: You Slay Me
• Aisling Grey, Guardian #2: Fire Me Up

R.A. MacAvoy
• Tea with the Black Dragon

Carolyn MacCullough
• Once a Witch

Karen Macinerney
• Tales of an Urban Werewolf #1: Howling at the Moon

A. Lee Martinez
• Gil's All Fright Diner

L.S. Matthews
• The Outcasts

Erin McCarthy
• Vegas Vampires #1: High Stakes
• Vegas Vampires #2: Bit the Jackpot
• Vegas Vampires #3: Bled Dry
• Vegas Vampires #4: Sucker Bet

Jeremy McGuire
• O'Shaughnessey: A Boy & His Leprechaun

Seanan McGuire
• Sparrow Hill Road
• Wayward Children: Where the Drowned Girls Go

Patricia A. McKillip
• Solstice Wood
• Something Rich & Strange, illustrated by Brian Froud

Robin McKinley
• Sunshine

Richelle Mead
• Georgina Kincaid #1: Succubus Blues
• Georgina Kincaid #2: Succubus On Top
• Georgina Kincaid #3: Succubus Dreams
• Georgina Kincaid #4: Succubus Heat
• Vampire Academy

Carlton Mellick III
• The Menstruating Mall
• Punk Land
• Sea of the Patchwork Cats
• Sex & Death in Television Town

O.R. Melling
• The Druid's Tune
• The Hunter's Moon
• The Light-Bearer's Daughter
• The Summer King

Colin Meloy
• The Wildwood Chronicles, Book I: Wildwood

Sienna Mercer
• My Sister the Vampire #1: Switched
• My Sister the Vampire #4: Vampalicious!

Stephenie Meyer
• Twilight
• Twilight #2: New Moon
• Twilight #4: Breaking Dawn

David Michael
• The Summoning Fire

Kate Milford
• The Boneshaker

Martin Millar
• The Good Fairies of New York

Jonna L. Miller
• Haunting for Time

Bob Mitchell
• Match Made in Heaven

Alexandra Monir
• Timeless

Christopher Moore
• Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story
• Coyote Blue
• A Dirty Job
• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
• Practical Demonkeeping
• The Stupidest Angel
• You Suck

James Morrow
• Only Begotten Daughter

Lisa Morton
• Netherworld

Natasha Mostert
• Windwalker

C.E. Murphy
• Baba Yaga's Daughter & Other Tales of the Old Races
• Walker Papers #1: Urban Shaman
• The Walker Papers #3: Coyote Dreams
• Walker Papers #6: Spirit Dances

Yxta Maya Murray
• Red Lion #2: The King's Gold

Justine Musk
• Uninvited

Ryan O'Brien
• The Land of Whoo

TJ O'Connor
• Dying to Know

Tim O'Laughlin
• Phoenix Fire

Pat O'Shea
• The Hounds of the Morrigan

Stephen R. Pastore
• Never on These Shores

James Patterson
• Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment (audiobook)

Nicole Peeler
• Tempest Rising

Nicholas Pekearo
• The Wolfman

Stefan Petrucha
• The Rule of Won

Vicki Pettersson
• Sign of the Zodiac #1: Scent of Shadows
• Sign of the Zodiac #2: Taste of Night
• Sign of the Zodiac #3: Touch of Twilight

Christopher Pike
• Alosha

Barbara Ann Porte
• Beauty & the Serpent: Thirteen Tales of Unnatural Animals

Tim Powers
• Declare
• Down & Out in Purgatory
• The Drawing of the Dark
• Earthquake Weather
• Expiration Date
• Last Call
• Salvage & Demolition