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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

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

David Almond
• Skellig

Christine Amsden
• Touch of Fate

Ilona Andrews
• Magic Bites
• 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
• 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 #8: Personal Demon

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
• 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
• Shadow Unit: Season One

Greg Bear
• Dinosaur Summer

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

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

Michael Bishop
• Unicorn Mountain

Holly Black
• 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
• 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

Francesca Lia Block
• Blood Roses
• Echo
• 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

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

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

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 Undead
• Weather Warden #1: Ill Wind
• Weather Warden #2: Heat Stroke
• Weather Warden #3: Chill Factor
• Weather Warden #4: Windfall
• Weather Warden #5: Firestorm

Mayra Calvani
• Embraced by the Shadows

Roy Campbell
• Song of the Jackalope

Orson Scott Card
• Enchantment

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

Cassandra Clare
• The Mortal Instruments #1: City of Bones

Will Clarke
• The Worthy: A Ghost's Story

Molly Cochran & Warren Murphy
• The Forever King

Susan Cooper
• The Boggart
• King Of Shadows

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

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

Charles de Lint
• Angel of Darkness, writing as Samuel M. Key
• The Blue Girl
• A Circle of Cats, illustrated by Charles Vess
• Dingo
• The Dreaming Place
• Dreams Underfoot
• Forests of the Heart
• Greenmantle
• The Hour Before Dawn
• The Ivory & the Horn
• Jack of Kinrowan
(omnibus: Jack the Giant-Killer, Drink Down the Moon)
• 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)
• Old Man Crow
• The Onion Girl
• 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

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

Mick Farren
• Darklost
• The Time of Feasting

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

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
• The Graveyard Book
• Neverwhere
• Good Omens, with Terry Pratchett

Alan Garner
• The Owl Service

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

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

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

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

Charlaine Harris
• Harper Connelly #1: Grave Sight
• Harper Connelly #2: Grave Surprise
• 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

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

Julie Hearn
• Sign of the Raven

Sheila Hendrix
• Bad Company

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

James A. Hetley
• 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
• My Hero
• Nothing But Blue Skies
• Only Human
• Open Sesame
• Overtime
• Paint Your Dragon
• The Portable Door
• Snow White & the Seven Samurai
• Valhalla
• Who's Afraid of Beowulf?
• Wish You Were Here

Nalo Hopkinson & Geoff Ryman, editors
• Tesseracts Nine

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

Tanya Huff
• Blood Debt
• Blood Lines
• Blood Pact
• Blood Price
• Blood Trail
• 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

Eva Ibbotson
• The Secret of Platform 13

Diana Wynne Jones
• Deep Secret
• Witch Week

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

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

Julie Kenner
• Carpe Demon

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

Karen Koehler
• Slayer

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
• The Plot to Save Socrates

Jane Lindskold
• Changer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jonna L. Miller
• Haunting for Time

Bob Mitchell
• Match Made in Heaven

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

Natasha Mostert
• Windwalker

C.E. Murphy
• The Walker Papers #1: Urban Shaman

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

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

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
• The Drawing of the Dark
• Earthquake Weather
• Expiration Date
• Last Call

Terry Pratchett
• Diggers
• Good Omens, with Neil Gaiman
• Johnny & the Bomb
• Johnny & the Dead
• Only You Can Save Mankind
• Truckers
• Wings