Praise for Haunted:

"Spooky, sassy, sinister, and sexy!"—Cynthia Leitich Smith, New York Times bestselling author

Is it possible to change the past?

Anastasia

No one ever knew what happened to her except her half–brother, Viktor—and he'll do anything to keep it that way.

Anne

She just wants a normal boyfriend, a normal family–no visions

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Rachel cannot imagine a life away from 'Binda', her home in the bush, where the Macquarie River flows alongside her back door. Her childhood days are spent with her neighbour and biracial best friend, Darel; exploring and learning about the Australian bush and the Wiradjuri (aboriginal) culture, through the teachings of his part-aboriginal mother. At their favourite meeting place, the dividing fence between the two properties, they share all their...

The book begins with an explanation about existentialism as a philosophical theory with applicability to everyday life. The first story is, called Encounter and deals with the existential issues of fear of death in a context of English and Serbian cultural diversity through the lens of the collective unconscious that speaks through an archetype of the anima as the feminine principle in males. The second story is, called Dream and explores, the problem...

The day Peyton Jessop walked into my life I was six years old. I'd spent that whole summer wondering if anyone would ever move into the creepy old Barkley house next door to me. Just before school started I watched as a van pulled up, and a browned hair little girl clutching a stuffed bear climbed out. Peyton was feisty and fun to be around, but her life at home was troubled. That brown haired girl weaved her way into my heart. She was supposed to...

As the second year of the Sandman Universe begins, the sentient algorithm known as Wan is now the acknowledged lord of Dream's realm, and unquestioned ruler of all his subjects. It's a huge problem that Wan is completely insane, and more than capable of wiping out all life in the Dreaming. What can Abel, the only one who knows Wan's secret, do about it? And what must he do to poor Matthew the Raven to put his plan into action?

CAN CHRIS AND HIS COUSIN KIKI FIND A WAY TO FILL THE HOLES IN THEIR LIVES? Tragedy has struck the Carson-Villanueva family. All linguistics professor Chris Carson can do is keep busy and hope the crippling feeling of loss will fade. Until a chance encounter with a striking young woman injects him with optimism. But when she tips him and drives off without giving her name, he's disappointed...and a little insulted. HOLLYWEIRD? OR MISUNDERSTOOD? Elle--born...

Even the Lord of Dreams is powerless against the storm of lost love. As with his predecessor Morpheus, Lord Daniel will find love in the last place anyone could have hoped for... the realm of the mortals. And as with all romantic entanglements between mortals and the Endless, things are destined to be doomed. Meanwhile, a newly awakened mind in the Dreaming brings with it radical changes that may undo reality itself!

The second volume in an annual collection of horror and dark-fantasy short stories for the Halloween season. Three of the four stories in this volume have been previously published. Volume Two Contents: We Are All Monsters Here; The Orange Cat; Angels & Absinthe; One Last Story

Quinn returns in THE GHOUL KING, another story of the Dreaming Cities by Guy Haley. The Knight, Quinn, is down on his luck, and he travels to the very edge of the civilized world — whatever that means, any more — to restock his small but essential inventory. After fighting a series of gladiatorial bouts against the dead, he finds himself in the employ of a woman on a quest to find the secret to repairing her semi-functional robot. But the technological...

Lucy and Welsey work together to tear a hole in the dream world into actual reality, despite the very real disasters it could cause!