Gripping tales of fantasy, mystery, and horror set in the piney woods of East Texas.

When Marise Dering marries Ben Clarrington, and moves into the old mansion where the rest of the Clarringtons live, she's ordered to keep out of the closed-off sections of the third floor—but never told why! As the family members begin perishing in odd circumstances, Marise must try to uncover the secret of...The Clarrington Heritage

SUMMARY: Swordplay and sorcery leads to unexpected adventures in a strange and exotic land.

BALROG WINNER'S FANTASY COLLECTION.The Balrog Award Winner's First-Ever Fantasy Collection! Eleven unforgettable stories of magic and the supernatural. Plus, all her tales of "Hermione," the Cat Fantastic, including a brand new one, never published before. It's a fantasy lover's feast by the a author of Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey, How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon, Lords of the Triple Moons, Runes of the Lyre, Soul-Singer of Tyrnos, BattleTech: The Sword and the Dagger, Warlock's Gift, and The World Ends in Hickory Hollow. Among the stories are: "Knyghte Kellin," "The Twilight Dancer," "A Snap of the Fingers," "A Cat's Private Diary," "Hermione to the Rescue," and many others. Discover for yourself why SF Book Reviews calls Ardath Mayhar a "self-styled mean little old lady [who writes] "lyrical, dream like style" and why Joe Lansdale calls her "science fiction's national treasure."

They came from outer space, these hideous, intelligent monsters, and they wanted our colonies, our goods, even our flesh. They looked like a cross between a spider and a crab, except bigger—much bigger—and meaner—much meaner—and they never stopped coming! World after world has been devastated, and man has been forced into a continuous defensive retreat.Joel Karsh is just a grunt slugging it out on Planet 3G 789, a bug factory world, where fresh protein (i.e., human flesh) is being processed for reshipment to enemy ships and depots throughout the Cluster. All he wants to do is make it back to the SpaceForce pick-up point. But as his buddies are killed, one by one, and the Knackers swarm ever closer, he's beginning to wonder if he'll even live through the next day!A rousing SF military adventure by a master storyteller!

The author of sixty-two books, more than forty of them published commercially, Ardath Mayhar (1930-2012) began her career in the early 1980s with science fiction novels from Doubleday and TSR. Atheneum published several of her young adult and children's novels. Changing focus, she wrote westerns (as Frank Cannon) and mountain man novels (as John Killdeer), four prehistoric Indian books under her own name, and historical western High Mountain Winter under the byline Frances Hurst.This collection — which features 27 fantasy & science fiction stories — was originally published in paperback as "The Methodist Bobcat and Other Tales." Included are:THE METHODIST BOBCATTHE LYCH ROADTHE VEAULESMAY BANKED FIRES RISE ANEWTHE GUARDIANS OF THE SHRINEARPEGGIA'S DEATHSONGTHE PLACE OF THE ANCIENTSOLD MAN, BAD SCENETHE SWAMP RUNNERFATE HAS THREE FACESMINDBENDIN THE LONE GRAYTHE DAY OF THE DRUMDEEP WOODS LADYWELCOME TO SHIARATHE LAST...

Two short novels published for the first time: "Born Rebel" tells the story of a woman in 1825 who's sold by her father to the neighboring farmer, and flees to Texas with her beau, with a hunter-killer dogging their every step. "The Guns of Livingston Frost," the third Washington Shipp mystery, finds Sheriff Shipp investigating a series of brutal crimes against antique gun dealers in East Texas.