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Hailed as "a literary fantasist of outstanding power and originality" by Michael Moorcock, Storm Constantine is one of the most exciting and innovative fantasy writers of her generation.A tale of intrigue and betrayal, bloodshed and pleasure, dark and dangerous supernatural forces, ardent and consuming passions, The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure is a thrilling new chapter in a compelling fantasy epic.The author of many acclaimed works of science ficti...

The world is changing. While human civilisation implodes, a new race is rising from the debris. Pellaz, a human boy, is drawn into the world of Wraeththu by the enigmatic Cal. In order to survive, Pellaz must transform into a new being, neither male nor female but something of both. Pellaz discovers that his inception has marked him for a destiny, both terrifying and wonderful.

Artemis, a world named for a huntress goddess, has been isolated from other human colonies for hundreds of years. Originally settled by a group of feminists and their male supporters, whose aim was to create an equal Utopian society, Artemis has drifted away from those ideals. A cruel matriarchy has risen to replace the oppressive patriarchy the original colonists sought to escape.Corinna Trotgarden has grown up in Vangery, a ranch situated on the sprawling marshes, where life is s...

Casmeer is the only living soul left in Thermidore, high atop the mountains of Overhang. So it has been for hundreds of years. Immortal historian and chronicler, Casmeer is the self-appointed keeper of the city's remains and its crystalline inhabitants.Finnigin is a young terranaut, whose people collect the crystal fragments from Thermidore that wash down from the mountains to use as pilot stones to guide the floating cities across the Flatlands. Finnigin is forced to leave his peo...

A near future Earth is dying due to human interference; Tech-Green is doing its best to repair the damage and is insisting that humankind leaves the planet to give it time to heal.Ari Famber, is the result of a genetic experiment she knows nothing about. Leila Saatchi, a friend of Ari's dead father, has promised to find her and protect her from others who may seek to use Ari for their own ends. Leila’s naturotech pagan group arrives at Taler’s Bump, Ari’s home, with the intent on a...

Storm Constantine is a mistress of shadow fantasy, exploring the dark and the weird in human nature and the natural world. Her short stories cross genres from science fiction, to horror, to fantasy, and this collection is the sixth to showcase her uncollected works.Mythotenebrae is the sixth volume of her collected short stories, containing fifteen pieces, many of which are previously unpublished. It's long been Storm's aim to polish up the juvenilia works she has stored a...

Dark in the Day - edited by Storm Constantine & Paul HoughtonIn the blink of an eye, around the corner, The Weird is everywhere. It's in the bird that turns out to be a fluttering newspaper, that white shoe left in a ploughed field, or the curdling smoke on the windscreen of a car, caused by the fast-moving reflection of clouds overhead. Normal is often weird and vice-versa. We're used to weird dreams but what about the wide-awake weird? This collection celebrates ...

Creatures of Wraeththu - Edited by Storm Constantine & Wendy DarlingThe androgynous and mysterious Wraeththu have risen to replace humanity upon a ravaged world. Fourth in the Wraeththu Mythos anthologies, 'Para Animalia' focuses upon Wraeththu's relationship with the animal kingdom – creatures both real and imaginary.Based on the world created by Storm Constantine for her Wraeththu novels, the stories in this collection explore how various Wraeththu tribes...

Wraeththu Tales of Love and Death - Edited by Strom Constantine & Wendy DarlingPara Mort is the sixth Wraeththu Mythos anthology. Authors from around the world have contributed stories, exploring Storm Constantine's alluring and mysterious Wraeththu: the androgynous, enhanced race that have come to replace humanity upon earth.Within art, love and death often walk hand in hand into the velvet night of obsession, which in turn can lead the way to mur...

High Crag on Cornwall’s desolate storm-lashed coast is a mysterious place with dark secrets. On these bleak shores, the rebel offspring of the angelic race landed many millennia ago. Their memory was never forgotten and across the centuries, seers, mystics and witches basked in the occult power of this prehistoric landscape, awaiting the rebirth of the Fallen Ones. Yet their modern day descendents, the Grigori, are already among humanity, hidden yet preparing for world dominance as the new...

The Grigori are an ancient race; powerful people who possess abilities and powers humans do not. They gave rise to the legends of the fallen angels, and their descendents live on among us, hidden within human society, moving wheels within wheels, making changes unseen across the world. 1st volume in Storm's acclaimed trilogy, examining the myths of the fallen angels and theNephilim.

Through the ancient magic of the Grigori, the rogue Anakim, Peverel Othman, is once again Shemyaza, king of the fallen angels, benefactor of humankind, who was once doomed to an eternity of torment and imprisonment. Now his soul is free and incarnate in the world, and as the millennium draws to a close, Shemyaza calls his followers to him for the final battle to decide who controls the fate of humanity.Along with his brother Salamiel and his human vizier Daniel, Shemyaza journeys t...