A collection of stories and poems set in Bordertown, a city on the edge of the faerie and human world that is populated by human and elfin runaways, including Cory Doctorow's "Shannon's Law, " Patricia A. McKillip's "Cruel Sister, " Annette Curtis Klause's "Elf Blood, " and others.
While thirteen-year-old Johnny Dixon lies dying, possessed by an evil spirit, his friends, an elderly professor and a schoolmate, try to find some way to free him.
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties.".
While Mr. Blood, the Dark Hunter, is outside watching for a vampire, Edgar and Mary are locked in a chapel with the body the vampire is supposedly seeking.
In ancient mythologies, many of the gods created all-powerful predators that unleashed panic on the human world. These horrors could be either beast or human--or even both. But who would come out on top in a fight? Which one is the most powerful of all? Find out about each monster's features and skills, where in the world they come from, how they rank compared to one another, and how you might defeat them if you ever strayed into their remote realms.
Fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, find themselves caught up in the deadly struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient book that holds the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
It has all come down to this, the final battle between Angels and Exiles, and Violet Eden who is part angel, part human, knows she is the best person to go after Spence, but doing so means facing her past and her soulmate, Lincoln.
