Vivian Vande Velde

When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Companions of the Night

A collection of variations on the familiar story of a boastful miller and the daughter he claims can spin straw into gold.

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem

Presents eight twists on the traditional tale of Little Red Riding Hood, exploring such issues as why most characters seem dim-witted and what, exactly, is the theme.

Cloaked in Red

Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer. Reprint.

Never Trust a Dead Man

Fourteen-year-old Grace must find a way to get her older sister out of a princess-filled virtual reality RPG (role playing game)--before it is too late.

Deadly Pink

With Wendy's new glasses, she begins to see cheerful corpses, old crones disguised as teeny-boppers, and portals to another world--a place where everyone knows of the glasses' powers and will do anything to get them.

Now You See It . . .

Fourteen-year-old Arvin and his friends risk using a computer-controlled role-playing game to simulate a magical world in which they actually become fantasy characters, even though the computer program is a pirated one containing unpredictable errors.

User Unfriendly

As the peaceful King Arthur reigns, the five-year-old daughter of Lady Alayna, newly widowed of the village-wizard Toland, is abducted by knights who leave their barn burning and their only servant dead. Reprint.

The Book of Mordred

A girl and her cat disappear back in time to retrieve a lost watch.

A Well-Timed Enchantment

Trina Schart Hyman

Lost in a magic forest and separated from her prince, Princess Jennifer seeks help from a kindly young sorcerer in battling an evil witch.

A Hidden Magic

Witnessing a bank robbery gone awry, misfit 15-year-old Zoe, a girl with supernatural ability to jump back in time and repeat events with up to 10 tries, attempts to stop the crime, but only makes things worse with each successive effort.

23 Minutes

Seven supernatural stories, all having something to do with death.

Being Dead

The old witch steals children, but did she steal Isabelle?

Stolen

Set apart from other people because of their unusual abilities, Nola, a teenage witch, and her mother find themselves in great danger when Nola uses her power to call up images and witnesses a murder.

Magic Can be Murder

Presents thirteen twisted versions of such familiar fairy tales as "Red Riding Hood," "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Hansel and Gretel," and "The Three Billy Goats Gruff."

Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird

Weiland, a changeling who can assume many forms, is desperate to escape the sorceress who uses him and others as tools for her vengeance, until he meets a thief named Shile, who offers to help free him from the grasp of the sorceress. Original.

The Changeling Prince

Presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry.

13 Stories

All Hallows' Eve

In Heir Apparent there are as many ways to win as there are to get killed. Giannine can testify to how many ways there are to die—it's about all she's been able to do since she started playing. Now all she has to do is get the magic ring, find the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, come up with a poem for the head-chopping statue, cope with the army of ghosts, outmaneuver her half brothers, and defeat the man-eating dragon. If she can do all of that, why, she just might save her own life!

Heir Apparent

Sixteen-year-old Nyssa uses her ability to see into people's dreams to discover who murdered her parents six years ago.

Witch Dreams

When almost-thirteen-year-old Princess Imogene is turned into a frog, she puts into practice lessons from the book, The Art of Being a Princess, as she tries to become her less-than-perfect self again.

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