Williams, Tad

To entertain his dinner guests, Masrur, a Muslim soldier, weaves a story about his encounter with a vampire on an ill-fated caravan through the Caucassian Mountains years before.

Simon, a young kitchen boy and magician's apprentice, finds his world torn apart by a civil war fueled by immortal enemies and the dark powers of sorcery.

Prince Barrick is lost behind the Shadowline, Princess Briony has fled to faraway lands, and they both learn secrets of their family and kingdom while trying to rescue their homeland from several enemies, including the gods.

Princess Briony and Prince Barrick, with the help of ordinary and extraordinary tiny allies, fight for their lives and try to save Southmarch Castle from an evil that has awakened after being dormant for thousands of years.

Southmarch Castle faces threats from two unyielding enemies, immortal Qar and the god-king Autarch of Xis; meanwhile, Prince Barrick fights for his life in a magical twilight land and Princess Briony must rely on her wits to maneuver through a deceptive foreign court.

Briony Eddons, heir to the kingdom of Shadowmarch along with her twin brother Barrick, struggles to save the kingdom from the inhuman Qar who have begun to reach beyond the Shadowline after centuries of peace, while also trying to deal with Barrick's increasing strangeness, and other enemies from without and within.

A small band of adventurers, having penetrated the veil of secrecy that surrounds Otherland--a private, multi-dimensional virtual realm run by the ruthless Grail Brotherhood--find themselves unable to return to their bodies and must find a way to survive not only hostile elements, but a Brotherhood assassin.

A small band of adventurers set out to penetrate the veil of secrecy that prevents people from entering Otherland, a private, multidimensional universe controlled by an organization who preys on small children.

Teacher Renie Sulaweyo and her Bushman friend !Xabbu, force their way into Otherland, an impregnable virtual reality world ruled by the Earth's wealthiest and most ruthless power brokers, to rescue the minds of her brother and other children which are being claimed by the fantasy universe.