For readers of all ages, these spellbinding stories will raise the pulse and quicken the heartbeat. Two kingdoms are united by magic in Garth Nix's 'Holly and Iron'. The ambition to catch a dragon drastically changes a lie in 'The Ruby Incomparable' by Kage Baker. A starving dove tells its story in Eoin Colfer's 'A Fowl Tale'. Relish the magic of learning about kindness in Neil Gaiman's 'The Witch's Headstone'.
Also includes stories by Mary Rosenblum, Eoin Colfer, Jane Yolen, Orson Scott Card, Patricia A. McKillip, Elizabeth Hand, Andy Duncan, Peter S. Beagle, Nancy Kress, Tanith Lee, Terry Bisson, Terry Dowling, Gene Wolfe, Tad Williams and Jeffrey Ford.