Scott Fitzgerald Gray (9th-level layabout, vindictive good) is a writer of fantasy and speculative fiction, a fiction editor, a story editor, and an editor and designer of roleplaying games — all of which means he finally has the job he really wanted when he was sixteen. He shares his life in the Western Canadian hinterland with a schoolteacher, two itinerant daughters, and a number of animal and spirit companions. More info on him and his work (some of it even occasionally truthful) can be found by reading between the lines at insaneangel.com.
It’s the classic tale — but not exactly the way you remember it.
An updated, illustrated, and unapologetically diverse edition of the timeless novel of romance, intrigue, and adventure by Alexandre Dumas, pere, and Auguste Maquet. The William Robson translation. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. Illustrated by Aviv Or.
When the young soldier Chriani finds himself targeted by Ilvani hunters tied to an ancient prophecy that might upset the balance of power in the Ilmar, it forces him back to the unresolved pact that binds him to the Prince High Chanist — and down a new road whose secrets might destroy the life he and his lover Kathlan hope to build.
The only thing being scared was good for was giving up. When Emmet said it, Sidnye hadn’t realized how right he was.
She’d been afraid before. She was numb now.
Numb was better.
Sidnye Dupree was going on thirteen years old when she broke the Bishop's nose with a dodgeball and dreamed the dream of the shooting star. But even if she'd known then what was happening to her, it would have been far too late to stop it...
These six tales of dark fantasy are woven from the shadow and mortality of the Endlands -- an epic-fantasy realm in which nothing is ever what it seems, and where only the purest hearts survive the touch of all-consuming darkness.
Across the blackened battlefields of the Great War That Was, a grim air-captain leads a mission to recover an arcane power that shouldn't exist -- and which summons the ghosts of war to destroy all those who covet its secrets...
The Blackheath Refuge is home to the victims of the most powerful magic in the Elder Kingdoms -- those wounded in body and mind by dark mana, ancient curses, and the hunger of the undead. When an invisible killer is unleashed within the refuge, the brash investigator Elathien Solo must contend with indifferent authorities and a young patient's terrible secret as she searches for the truth.
In her first short-fiction collection, Shvaugn Craig weaves stories of love and breakdown, longing and remembrance, and all the turbulent emotional landscape in between. Painting pictures of the world through a young woman’s eyes and as rendered by “notes on a life in progress,” THE SUICIDE GARDEN AND OTHER STORIES introduces a fresh fictional voice whose insight and promise ring loud and clear.
A TALE OF THE ENDLANDS — AN EBOOK-SINGLE SHORT STORY
The desolate settlement known only as the Fastness is home to ten thousand Human refugees fleeing the slave camps of the Ilvani. Arda and Silla have made their lives here, struggling to survive within the darkness of a world gone mad. But when the voice of that darkness calls them, neither will emerge unscathed...
The novice conjurer Gydon dreams of one day being accepted to the ranks of the apprentices of Citadel Chenyra, the legendary school of sorcery. However, what not even her master knows is that an accident in the laboratory five years before has granted Gydon an edge in her studies -- and an unlikely friend who will help her understand her true potential...
This first fiction collection from Monumental Works Group features seventeen tales of bright foreboding and dark wonder, shaped by nine authors on the leading edge of the next wave of fantasy and speculative fiction.
She smiles to see him because she must smile. Because she is a piece in the game of Heart and Light, feeling the tug of the dance her song makes, that her love makes as she watches the movement of other milling figures bright upon their shimmering sea.
This much she knows. The game of Heart and Light is a game that she must win…
A tale of dark fantasy horror.
"Poor girl, stop trying to scream for your last moment outside of me before I phase inside of you. But I want to ask you this, before I sniff through your nightmares to find out for sure. The big question for you, before you lose all volition, girl, is this…
"What will hurt you the most?"
AN EBOOK-SINGLE SHORT STORY — Noryan is the faithful squire of Braell, a knight of the people who wanders the countryside in search of wrongs to right. When a dark curse forces Braell to remember things that never happened, she is driven to undertake a quest she cannot name. But the more she trusts in Noryan to lead her, the greater the weight of the dark secret he hopes she never discovers…
AN EBOOK-SINGLE SHORT STORY — Conry is thirteen and a priest’s son when the death of the matriarch Lady Jeslyn darkens his village like a summer dust storm. But when he discovers a connection between Lady Jeslyn’s death and the murder of Old Rhen, the druid whose passing now threatens drought, Conry faces a darkness beyond the power of his faith — and a creature that only he can destroy…
AN EBOOK-SINGLE SHORT STORY — Sharyna is a Sister of Sorrow, charged by her order with making the dread archmage Skos Andarost fall in love with her — then using the power of that bond to destroy him. But when she discovers the dark secret of Andarost’s laboratories, Sharyna finds herself at the center of an ancient mystery — and fighting a creature whose hunger threatens her soul…
AN EBOOK-SINGLE SHORT STORY — This excerpt from the fantasy anthology "A Prayer for Dead Kings and Other Tales" tells of a reclusive storyteller who yearns to be a hero — and who is forced to rise to the occasion when the story of his own life becomes more heroic than he ever thought possible…
The new anthology from Scott Fitzgerald Gray, "A Prayer for Dead Kings and Other Tales" follows a disparate group of heroes and villains caught up with the dark history — and darker destiny — of nine weapons of ancient magic, lost to time and mind.
This epic-fantasy/sword-and-sorcery anthology includes six short stories, the novella "Ghostsong", and the short novel "A Prayer for Dead Kings".
AN EBOOK-SINGLE SHORT STORY — This excerpt from the fantasy anthology "A Prayer for Dead Kings and Other Tales" is a dark story of passion and murder (unintended and otherwise). Charan and Jalina, sibling heirs to the throne of empire, share a bond of blood and a dark secret — both of which threaten to destroy them when their father is killed…
When his mentor is murdered preventing an assassination attempt, a young palace guard is forced to become protector to a princess, the two reconciling a forbidden passion even as they find themselves caught up in a maelstrom of political intrigue, ancient racial hatred, a society living in mortal fear of sorcery — and a decades-old plot to plunge five nations into genocidal war.
The Cinderella story takes on a fresh twist when told from the perspective of a slightly depressed glass slipper salesman. "One Size Fits All" is a breezy, modern romantic-comedy tale of love at first sight — and of realizing that it’s never too late to write the ending you want for your own fairy tale.
Love, death, and obligation drag a young soldier into a world of political turmoil he never sought to be part of — and place him at the center of a web of ancient magic that threatens to bring five nations to the brink of war.
Life is complicated enough when you live full-time at boarding school because your parents are dead, and when the other students around you are mostly idiots, and when you’re doomed to spend the rest of your existence in cafeteria detention because you just can’t stop annoying the people in charge of your life.
But that’s when you discover the headaches you’ve been having aren’t just a part of being thirteen and feeling the weight of the world hammering down on you.
That’s when you realize the dreams you’ve been having are more than dreams, and the people you thought you were closest to are less concerned with caring about you than with keeping you from knowing the things they don’t want you to know…
The Tales of the Endlands are individually published ebook short stories set in the milieu of Isheridar — a far-ranging fantasy world reeling from the fall of an Empire whose magic ruled the globe for more than fifteen hundred years.
In the aftermath of arcane cataclysm, the unified Isheridar has shattered to become the Endlands — a world standing on the brink of the end of days as the bonds of Empire fracture. A world in which unlikely — and often unwilling — heroes mark the thin line between light and darkness…