A New York Times Bestselling Author -- What could be scarier than the first day of school? How about a crash course in the paranormal from the editors of Home Improvement: Undead Edition?Your worst school nightmares will pale in comparison to these thirteen original stories of academic anxiety. You'll need more than an apple to stave off the creatures in Harris's never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story, Ilona Andrews' tale of "exceptional" children, Thomas Sniegoski's "Bad Hour" at dog obedience school, and ten more. Remember your first lesson: resistance is fruitless!

Implicated in her ex-boyfriend Philip Dennis's death, Laura Fleming must dig not only into his private life but into her own past, as she closes in on a suspect and a clever killer gets closer to her. Reprint.

Back home in North Carolina for a family reunion, Laura Fleming and her husband, Richard, instead encounter a mysterious corpse, and the ensuing investigation uncovers some family skeletons. Original.

When Northerners Marshall and Grace Saunders arrive in Byerly, North Carolina, to purchase the town's largest mill, they are met with major opposition in the form of a twisted arsonist, and Laura Fleming must unearth the townspeople's long buried secrets to find the culprit. Reprint.

A New York Times Bestseller -- New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost -- plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more -- send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns. With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Harris and Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides for vacations that are frightening, funny and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque.

Returning home to Byerly, North Carolina to investigate the murder of her beloved Grandpaw, Laura Fleming is confronted with a wealth of suspects among her hostile and eccentric relatives and must unearth dark family secrets to catch a killer. Reprint.

Product Description: When a tragic family accident brings Laura Fleming back home to Byerly, North Carolina, the sleuth discovers that her beloved grampaw's fatal fall from a ladder in the old mill was not an accident.

Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this all-new story collection of the most peculiar plays ever made.…Sports fans live and die by their teams’ successes and failures―though not literally. But these fourteen authors have written spirited―in more ways than one―new tales of killer competitions that would make even the most die-hard players ask to be benched.In #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s “The Blue Hereafter,” Manfred Bernardo learns about softball from a certain blond barmaid in Louisiana.Life-and-death stakes make the competition get serious in New York Times bestseller William Kent Krueger’s “Hide and Seek.”New York Times bestselling author Mercedes Lackey’s “False Knight on the Road” features a high-stakes drag race on a foggy mountain road between a clever young bootlegger and a mysterious stranger.In New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s “Ice,” a young girl learns the true story behind a bit of neighborhood folklore.New York Times bestseller Seanan McGuire presents “Jammed,” in which a chimera loose during the Roller Derby makes it anyone’s guess as to who will still be skating by the time the buzzer sounds.In #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson’s “Dreamer,” a game of cops and robbers is a new challenge when the players are able to switch bodies at will.And New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler follows ghost stomper Hunter Hunterson as he investigates a haunted, never-ending baseball game in “The Case of the Haunted Safeway.”These and eight more supernatural sporting stories are guaranteed to have you rooting for the home team…or else.…

Product Description: First time in paperback! 14 TALES BY PATRICIA BRIGGS • VICTOR GISCHLER • HEATHER GRAHAM • JAMES GRADY • SIMON R. GREEN • CHARLAINE HARRIS • STACIA KANE • TONI L. P. KELNER • E E KNIGHT • ROCHELLE KRICH • MELISSA MARR • SEANAN MCGUIRE • SUZANNE MCLEOD • S J ROZAN The editors of the New York Times bestselling Death's Excellent Vacation bring home a captivating collection—including a Sookie Stackhouse story...read more

Product Description: For any homeowner who’s ever wondered, “What’s that creaking sound?” or fans of how-to television who’d like a little unreality mixed in with their reality shows, these fourteen authors have constructed stories guaranteed to shake your foundations and rattle your pipes...read more

Product Description: A New York Times Bestselling Author -- An Agatha Award-winning AuthorAn Anthony Award NomineeAs Christmas approaches, Laura Fleming plans to curl up in her Boston apartment with her English professor husband, Richard, to await the birth of their first child...read more

When her cousin Vasti implores her husband Richard to direct a production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, mother-to-be Laura Fleming accompanies Richard to her hometown of Byerly, North Carolina where she becomes unexpectedly immersed in murder and mayhem when furnture salesman Seth Murdstone, who has been cast as Scrooge, is viciously slain.

Thirteen new and original vampire tales of Birthdays with Bite! Charlaine Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse novels) and Toni L.P. Kelner (the Laura Fleming mysteries) have gathered together another 11 writers with serious vamp credentials to provide a baker's dozen tales. Meet Sookie Stackhouse, who, as the only non-vampire at a 'Dracula's birthday ball' soon finds that's she's the one on the menu, and Harry Dresden, who drops by a role-playing game to find himself dealing with deadly party crashers. In P.N. Elrod's 'Grave-Robbed', which mixes pathos and comedy, vampire PI Jack Fleming busts a phony medium mid-seance. Tanya Huff's 'Blood Wrapped' has Henry Fitzroy searching for the ideal gift for a vampire's 40th mixing with his pursuit of a human kidnapper. And Christopher Golden takes birthdays to heart in his poignant coming-of-age story 'The Mournful Cry of Owls'.

Product Description: Thirteen new and original vampire tales of Birthdays with Bite! Charlaine Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse novels) and Toni L.P. Kelner (the Laura Fleming mysteries) have gathered together another 11 writers with serious vamp credentials to provide a baker's dozen tales...read more

Product Description: You’re invited…to a celebration of vampires by a baker’s dozen of favorite authors. Sink your teeth into thirteen original stories, each one a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. From Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse attending a birthday party for Dracula to Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden battling bloodsucking party crashers, these suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous stories will ensure you’ll never think of vampires or birthdays quite the same again...read more

Product Description: You’re invited…to a celebration of vampires by a baker’s dozen of favorite authors. Sink your teeth into thirteen original stories, each one a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. From Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse attending a birthday party for Dracula to Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden battling bloodsucking party crashers, these suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous stories will ensure you’ll never think of vampires or birthdays quite the same again...read more

Product Description: You’re invited…to a celebration of vampires by a baker’s dozen of favorite authors. Sink your teeth into thirteen original stories, each one a fresh and unique take on what birthdays mean to the undead. From Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse attending a birthday party for Dracula to Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden battling bloodsucking party crashers, these suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous stories will ensure you’ll never think of vampires or birthdays quite the same again...read more

A flea market turns out to be a hotbed of greed, envy, and ruthless competition, so when dealer Carny Alexander is found chopped up with his own collectible knives, Laura Fleming has a slew of suspects from which to choose. Reprint. PW. LJ. AB.