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A TOKEN FOR CELANDINE
A CLEAN SWEEP



THE CURSE-MAKER



GEESE



HOUSE OF WIZARDS



HERE BE DRAGONS



WINTERKILL



STEALING SOULS



THE GIRL WHO WAS INFATUATED WITH DEATH


INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the parts of my imagination that don’t get much play at book length. Some people see short
stories as a way to further their book career. The last story, “The Girl Who Was Infatuated with Death,”
was commissioned by my publisher for a collection of pieces with other of their supernatural writers. So I
guess that one was designed to further my reading audience and those of the other writers with me in the
anthology. But as for the rest of the stories, these are ideas I was compelled to write by nothing but my
sometime peculiar imagination and a desire to play. Short stories for me are like vacations. You know,
those trips you take to new places to do things you don’t normally get to do in your work-a-day life.
These stories, with a few exceptions, are worlds where most of you have never been with me. Several of
these are set in the same world as my first book, Nightseer. So for those of you who keep writing in, or
asking at signings, when will I finish that series, here are at least a few more pieces of that world—though
with different characters and countries. I thought once I would write only heroic fantasy like a mix of
Tolkien and Robert E. Howard. But the bottom fell out of the heroic fantasy market and I was left
scrambling to find a vision that the publishers would buy. I had a few stories that were different, set in
modern day with fantastic elements. One was the first Anita Blake short story, “Those Who Seek
Forgiveness.” Another was “The Edge of the Sea”—which is still an idea that intrigues me. You have also