Heroes don't always look the part. He was a tery, a lean, bearish creature with no name. The human soldiers left dead. Just another dumb animal on their extermination list. But he didn't die. Animals weren't the only beings on the list. Certain humans were marked for extinction as well. A fugitive band found him and brought him back from the brink. He became their pet, their mascot. And still he had no name. He was simply "the tery." He soon learned that these were no ordinary humans, and learned too that he was no ordinary tery. The humans had no idea that the creature they fed table scraps and patted on the head would soon turn their world upside down and change it forever. By then he had a name. THE TERY - A beauty-and-the-beast fable that only F. Paul Wilson could tell, full of wonder and horror, brimming with strange landscapes and hideous mutations from science run amok. An unforgettable tale of the extremes of the human spirit--of bravery and depravity, of innocence and evil. This edition features original illustrations by Stephen Fabian.

A selection of Janet Fox's finest fantasy and horror stories. Janet Fox is a long-time writer of fantasy and horror short stories. She has had stories published in such magazines and anthologies as Year's Best Horror, Year's Best Fantasy, The Twilight Zone Magazine, 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares and Sword and Sorceress, as well as many small press publications. Under the pen name Alex McDonough, she wrote five novels in the Scorpio series published by Ace Books.

Situated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of German East Africa, the thriving caravan and port town of Bagamoyo, Tanzania is one of many diverse communities on the East African coast which has been characterized as 'Swahili'. Seeking an alternate framework for understanding community and identity, Steven Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood. Revealing how townspeople - Africans, Arabs, Indians, and Europeans alike - created a local vocabulary which referenced aspects of everyday town life and bound them together as members of a shared community, this first extensive examination of Bagamoyo's history from the pre-colonial era to independence uses a new lens of historical analysis to emphasize the importance of place in creating local, urban identities and suggests a broader understanding of these concepts historically along the Swahili Coast.

Situated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of German East Africa, the thriving caravan and port town of Bagamoyo, Tanzania is one of many diverse communities on the East African coast which has been characterized as 'Swahili'. Seeking an alternate framework for understanding community and identity, Steven Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'Swahili' as it has been traditionally understood. Revealing how townspeople - Africans, Arabs, Indians, and Europeans alike - created a local vocabulary which referenced aspects of everyday town life and bound them together as members of a shared community, this first extensive examination of Bagamoyo's history from the pre-colonial era to independence uses a new lens of historical analysis to emphasize the importance of place in creating local, urban identities and suggests a broader understanding of these concepts historically along the Swahili Coast.

Poetry in all that she does is her hallmark, and few are able to equal it ... -- Charles L. Grant (noted author and critic Jessica Amanda Salmonson) described Janet Fox by saying: A regular in Year's Best Horror Stories, she has published in Amazons , Fantastic, Moonbroth, Space & Time, Year's Best Fantasy, and many other magazines and anthologies. She might have added: Whispers, Shadows, Fears, and The Twilight Zone Magazine, among others. single-author short story collection nowadays, one of the best books of the year would be the The Best of Janet Fox. The lead story might well be 'Witches'. including the lead tale in this book ... Witches. Here are the contents of this marvelous and long-overdue collection: the Kingdom of the Thorn, from Whispers; A Witch in Time and Demon & Demoiselle from Fantastic Stories; Morrien's Bitch, from Amazons ; Screaming to Get Out, from Weirdbook; Valentine, from Shadows; Taking Care of Bertie, from Eldritch Tales; The Skins You Love to Touch, from Shadows; Garage Sale, from The Twilight Zone Magazine; Surrogate, from Fears; and Alliances (a sequel to Morrien's Bitch), which is new in this volume.