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The great songs and folktales of the English, Irish, and Scottish
tradition reimagined in comic book form by some of the most famous
fantasy and science fiction authors of the 20th century, including
Neil Gaiman (Sandman), Charles de Lint (Widdershins, The Onion
Girl), Jane Yolen (Lost Girls, Briar Rose), Sharyn McCrumb (The
Ballad of Frankie Silver), Jeff Smith (Bone), and more.
With the help of a mentor and an anonymous benefactor, Jilly
Coppercorn has overcome abuse, addiction, and a stint in juvie.
Though she still struggles to stay clean, she has found safety and
love in a newly formed family that includes her loyal best friend,
a lovely artist, and her caseworker. Temptation comes knocking,
however, when her best friend from the bad old days rides in on a
motorcycle and takes Jilly to a beautiful, mysterious city full of
wonderful opportunities. It seems perfect at first, until Jilly
discovers that it was a one-way trip--and she still has unfinished
business in Newford. At turns playful and serious, this urban
fantasy introduces de Lint's most enduring character and grapples
with the realities of life-changing choices.
In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed...only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, called manitou and other such names by the Native tribes.
Now generations have passed, and the Irish have made homes in the new land, but the Gentry still wander homeless on the city streets. Gathering in the city shadows, they bide their time and dream of power. As their dreams grow harder, darker, fiercer, so do the Gentry themselves--appearing, to those with the sight to see them, as hard and dangerous men, invariably dressed in black.
Bettina can see the Gentry, and knows them for what they are. Part Indian, part Mexican, she was raised by her grandmother to understand the spirit world. Now she lives in Kellygnow, a massive old house run as an arts colony on the outskirts of Newford, a world away from the Southwestern desert of her youth. Outsider her nighttime window, she often spies the dark men, squatting in the snow, smoking, brooding, waiting. She calls them los lobos, the wolves, and stays clear of them--until the night one follows her to the woods, and takes her hand....
Ellie, an independent young sculptor, is another with magic in her blood, but she refuses to believe it, even though she, too, sees the dark men. A strange old woman has summoned Ellie to Kellygnow to create a mask for her based on an ancient Celtic artifact. It is the mask of the mythic Summer King--another thing Ellie does not believe in. Yet lack of belief won't dim the power of the mast, or its dreadful intent.
Donal, Ellie's former lover, comes from an Irish family and knows the truth at the heart of the old myths. He thinks he can use the mask and the "hard men" for his own purposes. And Donal's sister, Miki, a punk accordion player, stands on the other side of the Gentry's battle with the Native spirits of the land. She knows that more than her brother's soul is at stake. All of Newford is threatened, human and mythic beings alike.
Once again Charles de Lint weaves the mythic traditions of many cultures into a seamless cloth, bringing folklore, music, and unforgettable characters to life on modern city streets.
When Sara and Jamie discovered the seemingly ordinary artifacts, they sensed the pull of a dim and distant place. A world of mists and forests, of ancient magics, mythical beings, ageless bards...and restless evil.
Now, with their friends and enemies alike--Blue, the biker; Keiran, the folk musician; the Inspector from the RCMP; and the mysterious Tom Hengyr--Sara and Jamie are drawn into this enchanted land through the portals of Tamson House, that sprawling downtown edifice that straddles two worlds.
Sweeping from ancient Wales to the streets of Ottawa today, Moonheart will entrance you with its tale of this world and the other one at the very edge of sight...and the unforgettable people caught up in the affairs of both. A tale of music, and motorcycles, and fey folk beyond the shadows of the moon. A tale of true magic; the tale of Moonheart.
From the master of contemporary urban fantasy, a new collection of
"Newford" stories
The city of Newford could be any city in North America, bursting
with music, commerce, art, love, hate, and, of course magic. Magic
in the sidewalk cracks, myth at the foundations of its great
buildings, enchantment in the spaces between its people.
In novels like "Moonheart," "Forests of the Heart," "The Onion
Girl," and "The Mystery of Grace," and in a series of story
collections, urban fantasy master Charles de Lint has explored that
magic and those spaces, bringing to life a tapestry of people from
all walks of life, each looking for a spark of the miraculous to
shape their lives and transform their fate.
Here, in the fifth of the story collections, we reencounter old
friends such as Jilly, Sophie, and the Crow Girls. We breathe in
intimations of the world beyond death, and of magic beyond time.
Longtime readers and newcomers alike will find themselves under
Charles de Lint's unique spell.
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Spiritwalk (Paperback)
Charles De Lint
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At the heart of Tamson House is the Wood. And in that Wood is the
Mystery
Tamson House, in modern, urban Ottawa, is a rambling, eccentric
curiosity of a house--and a place of hidden Power. Built at a point
where the leylines meet, upon land that was once a sacred site, it
is the gateway to a spirit world where Celtic and Native American
magicks mingle and leak into our own.
In the overgrown garden of Tamson House, a Coyote Man waits, green
children walk, and music rises to greet the moon. From the garden,
a vast and primal wood is just one spirit-step away... and in that
wood is something that threatens the very existence of Tamson
House, and all who dwell within.
Charles de Lint returns to the spirit-world of his bestselling
"Moonheart "in a splendid work of urban fantasy, bringing myth,
music, and magic into our modern world.
On the Day of the Dead, the Solona Music Hall is jumping. That's
where Altagracia Quintero meets John Burns, just two weeks too
late.
Altagracia - her friends call her Grace - has a tattoo of Nuestra
Senora de Altagracia on her shoulder, she's got a Ford Motor
Company tattoo running down her leg, and she has grease worked so
deep into her hands that it'll never wash out. Grace works at
Sanchez Motorworks, customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a
classic car is her calling.
Now Grace has to find the line in her own life. A few blocks around
the Alverson Arms is all her world -- from the little grocery store
where she buys beans, tamales, and cigarettes ("cigarettes can kill
you," they tell her, but she smokes them anyway) to the record
shop, to the library where Henry, a black man confined to a
wheelchair, researches the mystery of life in death - but she's got
unfinished business keeping her close to home.
Grace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be wonderful,
except that John, like Grace, has unfinished business - he's
haunted by the childhood death of his younger brother. He's never
stopped feeling responsible. Like Grace in her way, John is an
artist, and before their relationship can find its resolution, the
two of them will have to teach each other about life and love,
about hot rods and Elvis Presley, and about why it's necessary to
let some things go.
Among Charles de Lint's most beloved creations is the northern city
of Newford, a place touched by deep magic--and the setting for
novels like "The Onion Girl" and story collections like "Dreams
Underfoot," Now, with the Orb publication of "The Ivory and the
Horn," all four of the Newford story collections are returned to
print. Here, on the streets of Newford, is the magic that hovers at
the edge of everyday life.
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Widdershins (Paperback)
Charles De Lint
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In Widdershins, fantasy author Charles de Lint has delivered one of
his most accessible and moving works of his career. Jilly
Coppercorn and Geordie Riddell. Since they were introduced in the
first Newford story, Timeskip, back in 1989, their friends and
readers alike have been waiting for them to realize what everybody
else already knows: that they belong together. But they've been
more clueless about how they feel for each other than the
characters in When Harry Met Sally. Now in Widdershins, a
stand-alone novel of fairy courts set in shopping malls and the
Bohemian street scene of Newford's Crowsea area, Jilly and
Geordie's story is finally being told. Before it's over, we'll find
ourselves plunged into the rancorous and sometimes violent conflict
between the magical North American animal people and the more
newly-arrived fairy folk. We'll watch as Jilly is held captive in a
sinister world based on her own worst memories--and Geordie,
attempting to help, is sent someplace even worse. And we'll be
captivated by the power of love and determination to redeem ancient
hatreds and heal old magics gone sour. To walk widdershins is to
walk counterclockwise or backwards around something. It's a classic
pathway into the fairy realm. It's also the way people often back
slowly into the relationships that matter, the real ones that make
for a life. A June 2006 Book Sense Pick
Memory and Dream is the story of Isabelle Copley, a young artist
who once lived in the bohemian quarter of the northern city of
Newford. As a student of Vincent Rushkin, a cruel but gifted
painter, she discovered an awesome power - to craft images so real
that they came to life. With her paintbrush she called into being
the wild spirits of the wood, made her dreams come true with canvas
and paint. But when the forces she unleashed brought unexpected
tragedy to those she loved, she ran away from Newford, turning her
back on her talent - and on her dreams. Now, twenty years later,
the power of Newford has reached out to draw her back. To fulfill a
promise to a long-dead friend, Isabelle must come to terms with the
shattering memories she has long denied, and unlock the slumbering
power of her brush. She must accept her true feelings for her
newfound lover John Sweetgrass, a handsome young Native American
who is the image of her most intense imaginings. And, in a dark
reckoning with her old master, she must find the courage to live
out her dreams, and bring the magic back to life.
"Return to Newford
"Familiar to Charles de Lint's ever-growing audience as the setting
of the novels "Moonheart," "Forests of the Heart," "The Onion
Girl," and many others, Newford is the quintessential North
American city, tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with
hidden magic for those who can see.
In the World Fantasy Award-winning "Moonlight and Vines," de Lint
returns to this extraordinary city for another volume of stories
set there, featuring the intertwined lives of many characters from
the novels. Here is enchantment under a streetlamp: the landscape
of our lives as only Charles de Lint can show it.
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Trader (Paperback)
Charles De Lint
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A novel of loss, identity, and, in the strangest of places, hope.
Leonard Trader is a luthier, a maker of guitars. Johnny Devlin is
chronically unemployed. Leonard is solitary, quiet, responsible.
Johnny is a lady-killer, a drunk, a charming loser.
When they inexplicably wake up in each other's bodies, Johnny
gleefully moves into Leonard's comfortable and stable existence,
leaving Leonard to pick up the pieces of a life he had no part in
breaking.
Penniless, friendless, homeless, Leonard begins a journey that will
take him beyond the streets of the city to an otherworld of dreams
and spirits, where he must confront both the unscrupulous Johnny
Devlin and his own deepest fears.
At a popular Newford online research and library Web site called
the Wordwood, a mysterious crash occurs. Everyone visiting the site
at the moment of the crash vanishes from where they were sitting in
front of their computers. Christy Ridding's girldfriend Saskia
disappears right before his eyes, along with countless others.
To rescue their missing friends, Christy and his companions must
journey into Newford's otherworld, where the Wordwood, it
transpires, has a physical presence of its own...
Rachael Sorenson feared she would never escape her ex-husband's
abuse. Then a passing stranger came to her rescue---a stranger who
had watched her from afar.
He was a photographer, and Rachael was his perfect subject. He
lived only to make her happy---and eliminate those who didn't.
Now he wants more than her beauty. She owes him her life---and he
means to collect.
In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark
fantasy novels under the pen name "Samuel M. Key." Now, beginning
with "Angel of Darkness" and "From a Whisper to a Scream" and
concluding with" I'll Be Watching You," Orb presents them for the
first time under de Lint's own name.
A young artist returns to her cabin in the deep woods of Canada to
concentrate on her illustrations. But somehow, strange and
beautiful creatures are slipping into her drawings and sketches.
The world of Faerie is reaching out to her for help--and she may be
its last chance for survival.
A tale of magic and murder
The increasingly bizarre murders have baffled the police—but each death is somehow connected with the city’s elusive Gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the Romany know better. They know the name of the darkness that hunts them down, one by one: Mulengro.
Originally published under the pen name “Samuel M. Key”
"Years after the death of a notorious child murderer, children have begun to die again...and a crime photographer begins to suspect he has the one true clue that connects the horrific events."
In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasy novels under the pen name “Samuel M. Key.” Now, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint’s own name.
In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasies under the name "Samuel M. Key." Now, beginning with Angel of Darkness, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint's own name.
When ex-cop Jack Keller finds the mutilated body of a runaway girl in the ashes of a bizarre house fire, he opens the door to a nightmare. For a sadistic experiment in terror has unleashed a dark avenging angel forged from the agonies of countless dying victims....
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