Songs of Love and Death

In this star-studded cross-genre anthology (Neil Gaiman, Jim Butcher, Peter S. Beagle, Tanith Lee, and more), seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate.