Beyond the Pale
is an anthology of fantasy, urban fantasy and paranormal stories that skirt the border between our world and others. Was that my imagination, or did I hear something under my bed? What was that blurred movement in my darkened closet? There is but a thin Veil separating the real and the fantastic, and therein dwell the inhabitants of these stories.
contains twelve dark fantasy, urban fantasy and paranormal short stories by award-winning and New York Times bestselling authors:
"Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela" by
Saladin Ahmed
(author of
Throne of the Crescent Moon
)
"The Children of the Shark God" by
Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn
"Misery" & "Shadow Children" by
Heather Brewer
Vladimir Tod
"Even Hand" by
Jim Butcher
The Dresden Files
series)
"Death Warmed Over" by
Rachel Caine
(author of the
Weather Warden
"Red Run" by
Kami Garcia
Beautiful Creatures
"Pale Rider" & "The Adventures of Lightning Merriemouse-Jones" by
Nancy Holder
Wicked
"Frost Child" and "South" by
Gillian Philip
Rebel Angels
"A Knot of Toads" by
Jane Yolen
Owl Moon
The noun "pale" refers to a stake (as in impaling vampires) or pointed piece of wood (as in a paling fence). "Pale" came to refer to an area enclosed by a paling fence. Later, it acquired the figurative meaning of an enclosed and therefore safe domain. Conversely, "beyond the pale" means foreign, strange, or threatening. You are about to go Beyond the Pale.