Crippled and tortured by paralyzing nightmares, Newt, a solitary cat, finds a new life for herself with the strange tusked creatures of the seashore until her peaceful existence is disrupted by Ratha's scout Thakur..
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
A collection of Gothic fiction stories, written between 1773 and 1991, featuring a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allen Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Isabel Allende.