Holidays Are Hell

October 15, 2007
In this unusual paranormal collection by some of the genre's best-known authors, readers are treated to a surfeit of holiday romances that range from Thanksgiving to Chinese New Year. A fledgling witch invokes a spirit with frighteningly unexpected results in Harrison's winter-set "Two Ghosts for Sister Rachel"; a woman on the run from the madman who turned her into a shape-shifter finds unexpected love in Lynsay Sands's "Run, Run, Rudolph"; a Chinese undercover antiterrorist operative and a renegade necromancer join to stop a band of life-stealing vampires in Marjorie M. Liu's exotic "Six"; and a superheroine returns to the real world to fight for children and finds love as well in Vicki Pettersson's "The Harvest." These fast-paced, off-beat tales will pique the interest of sophisticated readers.

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