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When her old friend, Ricky Maulders, who is dying cancer, visits artist Dorothea Howard, he discovers shes being held captive by the magical power of one of her own creations that she refuses to let go of, and haunted by the ghost of a judge in post-Revolution France. Dorothea insists that all she wants is to be left alone. But then three Chicano teens on the run from the police and a gaggle of summer-school students violently enter Dorotheas ...

El doctor Weyland es el profesor más respetado de una pequeña universidad de Nueva Inglaterra. Alto, maduro, de pelo acerado, sus modales anticuados cautivan a los estudiantes, y un magnetismo especial rodea todos sus actos.Sin embargo, Weyland es un nombre falso, sus credenciales académicas son inventadas, y tras la fachada del erudito absorto en su trabajo se oculta el mayor depredador que el mundo ha conocido, uno cuya presa son los seres h...

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25 years after the landmark publication of Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her epic tale of the Holdfast.The Fems were slaves of the men in the Holdfast. When Alldera escaped her slavery, she led a band of rebels to build a world where women rule. Now Sorrel, Alldera's daughter, joins her mother. She brings with her a young boy she has adopted.The Conqueror's Child completes an epic history of life and love and t...

Themes of transgression, eroticism, and violence thread through this retrospective collection of short stories and essays. A psychotherapist falls under the spell of her vampire patient in "Unicorn Tapestry" and in "Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast, " an evil maestro finds redemption in his lovely pupil, and additional essays "Art Is Long" and "The Stagestruck Vampire" offer autobiographical reflections on the art of writing. Combinin...

After thirty years, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her incomparable epic tale of men and women, slavery and freedom, power and human frailty. It started with "Walk to the End of the World, " where Alldera the Messenger is a slave among the Fems, in thrall to men whose own power is waning. In continued with "Motherlines, " where Alldera the Runner is a fugitive among the Riding Women, who live a tribal life of horse-thieving and storytelling,...

In Book One of the Holdfast Chronicles, Aldera the Messenger, along with all other women, is a slave. In Book Two, Aldera the Runner lives in two worlds, both consisting entirely of women. Now In Book Three, The Furies, Aldera the Conqueror leads an army back over the mountains, hoping to end the tyranny and free the salves she left behind.

The scary, lush, and complex stories of a seminal fantasy author are presented in this retrospective collection. In "The Unicorn Tapestry, " a therapist finds herself transformed by a client who may be a vampire. A young girl discovers the pitfalls of puberty and an animal nature in "Boobs", an unlikely shaman finds protection in an unwilling ally in "Peregrines", and in the dark retelling of the two fairy tales "Beauty and the Opera or The Ph...