The Night Bazaar
“Together the tales form a sumptuous carnival, offering a tantalizing glimpse into the mystical underworld of plague-ridden Europe. These dark flights of fancy delight.”
—Publisher’s Weekly on The Night Bazaar Venice
“Appealing to those who like their fantasy served with a side of psychological horror, this anthology is sure to please.”
—Publisher’s Weekly on The Night Bazaar
THE NIGHT BAZAAR, edited by Lenore Hart
Various mentions of a Night Bazaar appear in obscure and controversial texts from around the world. A forbidden market which opens at midnight, closes before sunrise, and appears for one week . . . but never in the same venue each night, and never again in the same city. There’s just one catch: To find it, you must be Invited.
Tonight the Bazaar opens in a parking garage in Manhattan. A subterranean fair of antique costumes, alchemical treatments, magical dentistry, palmistry, Tarot and tea leaf-reading, and water-, glass-, and crystal-gazing, oddities and objets d’art, medical curiosities and strange instruments, erotic favors, time travel, and body alterations. The narrow aisles throng with jongleurs, freaks, charlatans, mountebanks, faeries, prostitutes, and acrobats. The scents of opium, perfume, tobacco, greasepaint, incense, plastic explosive, alcohol, and sex permeate the air. But each object or service comes with a gift, a curse, or a haunting. . .
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THE NIGHT BAZAAR: VENICE, edited by Lenore Hart
The Night Bazaar is a secret marketplace of the rare, strange, occult, and dangerous. Its curious vendors specialize in services or objects which simply cannot be had elsewhere, for any price. This forbidden market has operated throughout history at various locales. It cannot be stumbled upon; you must be Invited. But how did it begin? This collection of thirteen eerie, fantastic, and magical works by various authors recounts the origin story of the Bazaar’s first appearance, in St. Mark’s Square, Venice, in the plague year of 1348. Some take place in those medieval days of fear, witchcraft, pandemic, and murder. Other, more contemporary tales center on objects from that first bazaar – inherited, found, purchased, or stolen during the dark centuries since by the unsuspecting, foolish, and greedy (though seldom the completely innocent). Together the linked stories take readers on a fantastical journey into astonishment, dread, and dark delight.
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Blood Moon: The Adventure of an Abducted Sorceress, by David Poyer
A two-act Sherlock Holmes play with supernatural overtones. The year is 1885. Holmes and Dr. John Watson are chatting in the parlor at 221B Baker Street when a strangely attired group of individuals enter, pleading for help. They say they’re from a traveling bazaar of magic, and their impresario has vanished.
Holmes and Watson must penetrate layers of mystery and misdirection to find out who kidnapped the beautiful but apparently immortal Madam Vera Fortunato, enigmatic mistress of a traveling carnival of the occult called the Night Bazaar. Holmes, assisted by Watson and the notorious medium Helena Blavatsky, pursues and discards several false leads before finally uncovering the actual plot and its aristocratic instigator, and pursuing him to a fiery climax in the sight of all East London.
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THE NIGHT BAZAAR: LONDON, edited by Lenore Hart
In volume three of this widely-praised dark fantasy anthology series, the Night Bazaar, a secret marketplace of the rare, strange, occult, and dangerous, journeys to 19th century London. There, as usual, its vendors will purvey curious services, forbidden wares, and rare objects which cannot be had elsewhere, for any price. The midnight market has operated throughout history in various locales, appearing in a city for one week only.
This time the Bazaar’s proprietress, the enigmatic and unflappable Madame Vera, escorts the reader on an eerie, fantastical British tour in ten linked short stories by various authors. Some tales feature such recognizable luminaries as Sherlock Holmes, occultist Madam Blavatsky, and Queen Anne Boleyn. Several take place during the Bazaar proper, while others occur earlier or later, tied to its 1880s London appearance by a curse or spell – or, by an object found, inherited, purchased, or stolen during the decades since, by the unsuspecting, foolish, or greedy (though seldom the completely innocent). Together, these ten linked stories take readers on a fantastical journey into astonishment, dread, and dark delight. But be warned: as usual, each object or service comes with a gift, a curse, or a haunting. . . .
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Devil’s Key, by Elizabeth Graves
“[This] Florida native breathes life into all her characters – dead or alive.” — St. Augustine Record
Lucy Fowler plans to spend winter break on an island off the coast of Florida, to finish writing her thesis. She needs one last interview with an elderly midwife. Lucy almost cancels the trip after she’s brutally assaulted on campus. But in the end, she goes, hoping work will be therapeutic.
On remote, isolated Ibo Key, Lucy learns midwife Esther Day is now confined to a psychiatric ward. She also learns there was once a thriving black community on the island. Its residents all vanished one night long ago. And an odd little man tells Lucy that every man, woman, and child on the island will soon die. To escape she must face her own connection to both the victims and perpetrators of a long-ago massacre . . . a crime so monstrous it invites the arrival of an evil old as time. Devil’s Key was originally published by Egmont Boker, Oslo, in 1999 as Svart Frikt. This newly revised edition is the first in the English language.
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Stepfather Bank, by D.C. Poyer
The year is 2110, and the Bank owns everything. After the Last War and the Big Overheat, The Bank finally emerged to exercise what had long been predicted as the final stage of economic evolution: monopoly. It employs, is owed by, and rules everyone. Everyone in the world.
Except Monaghan Burlew. He’s the only man outside the System. The only one on the planet who’s free.
Monaghan Burlew is happy. But he’s also restless. He has a nagging feeling there’s something he has to do, though he doesn’t yet know what.
He certainly has no idea that very shortly, he’ll be Earth’s last hope of surviving an interplanetary catastrophe….
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White Continent, by David Poyer
For thirty years diehard Poyer fans searched used bookstores for the few tattered copies surviving of White Continent. This sprawling first novel reads like a remix of Atlas Shrugged and The Dogs of War. It follows a team of adventurers, mercenaries, outcasts, and entrepreneurs in a daring coup to take over the last unclaimed land on Earth — the terrifyingly hostile continent of Antarctica. Using advanced technology to survive, they build a Utopian society, both communal and fiercely individualistic, unlike any that exists elsewhere on earth. Then, joined under their red, green, and white flag, they find they must fight to defend their new country, from those who want to take it from them.
The geopolitical scene has changed since White Continent was written. But the book is still prescient, in its foreshadowing of today’s conflicting claims and impending resource wars in places like the Arctic and the China Sea. Fans of Poyer’s later books will notice themes he’s still exploring, such as the search for authentic authority, conflicted heroes, and deeply layered, multidimensional characters who think as well as act.
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Black River, by Elizabeth Graves
“A maelstrom of black magic, conjuring and suspense.” — Page Edwards, author of American Girl
“One of those ‘can’t stop reading’ types of books…This novel will remain in your memory for a long time.” — Patrick D. Smith, author of Forever Island
According to the tourist ads, Florida is beaches and theme parks and shopping malls. But if you leave the interstate behind, a bit of Old Florida survives. In palmetto scrub and pine woods, beneath dark, fast-flowing rivers, hidden in long-suppressed family secrets, kept alive by tradition and superstition … and something even more sinister.
After Kay Abbott’s husband dies in Miami, she wants to start over. So she packs up and takes her daughter to live in a house inherited from his family, in a small town in the rural Panhandle. But Kay hasn’t really left her problems behind. Just inherited new ones: an old house with things to hide, a creepy, lecherous realtor, a wandering little girl, a local witch, and a husband who simply won’t stay buried.
In Abaton the past is only prologue — and the dead haven’t gone away at all.
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The Shiloh Project, by David Poyer
Before Harry Turtledove and Cherie Priest . . . there was another riveting alternate history . . . The Shiloh Project.
The South won at Gettysburg in 1863. Today the Mason-Dixon Wall divides Union and Confederacy … and many other things are different from the world we know. There was no Russian Revolution and no World War Two. The Wright brothers died in fiery crashes, and gigantic Zeppelins rule the skies.
Nevertheless, a shaky peace has prevailed between the North and South. For decades now, steaming endlessly up and down the North American coast from the Antilles to Nova Scotia, the Great Line has been the guarantor of the policy (formulated by Winston Churchill in 1955) of “containment” of the expansionist Yankees and their no less aggressive Czarist Russian allies.
Only now … that ring of guns and steel may be broken.
For now the Union has a powerful new weapon, tested on Yokohama during the just-concluded Yankee-Japanese War. Unless the Confederacy can obtain its secret for the Empire, the hundred and thirty-year balance of terror may escalate into global disaster.
Only Colonel Aubrey Lee Quidley IV, Confederate States Army Intelligence, knows of the Shiloh Project’s existence. Until the leak. In a police-state “Dixie Socialist” South, closed off behind barbed wire, there are those who want disaster for their own ends. The vengeful “conditionally emancipated” black Resistance … the fascist, genocidal Kuklos League … a beautiful Yankee mole inside the highest levels of the Richmond Government.
Together, they’ll turn Quidley’s mission into a treacherous triangle of conspiracy, betrayal, and chaos. Whoever wins, the Confederacy will never be the same. . . .
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