"Return to the sumptuous, global feast of fantasy fiction with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's selection of modern masterpieces. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula...

Poetry Nation is a compelling overview of all the movements in current "alternative" poetries, with special attention to women, gay, Black, Asian, and indigenous writers. Major figures are presented alongside the most exciting younger voices. The anthology features Allen Ginsberg's last poem, a never-collected poem by Evelyn Lau, and a newly-discovered love poem by Ian Stephens. One hundred cutting-edge poets including Sandra Cisneros, Bill Bissett,...

Chantel is a rich spoiled teenage girl cursed to be a mermaid after she almost drowned and disturbed some coral under the sea. The following day, she woke up to find herself cursed with a mermaid tail instead of two legs. With the help of her best friend Noah, they go on a journey to find her Prince Charming who she believes will break her curse.

Conan: "A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil"--Container. The Crow: Exactly one year after a young rock guitarist and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, he returns,...