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Increasingly as popular as her legendary vampires, Anne Rice's Mayfair witches return in the paperback edition of the bestselling sequel to The Witching Hour. Around the globe, through time and between the worlds, the beautiful coven queen Rowan Mayfair flees the evil spell of the darkly compelling Lasher.

In the process of successfully outing himself as a vampire via his simultaneous career choices of rock star, author, and actor, Lestat has annoyed much of the vampire community, who are furious that he has revealed their secrets (even if most of Lestat's fans don't really believe in his bloodsucking ways). More importantly, however, Lestat's antics have awakened the legendary Akasha, the mother of all vampires, and she is not exactly pleased with the way things have been going in the 6,000 years since she last ruled the world.

This anthology features 20 pieces about the West, including work by JoAnn Levy, Richard S. Wheeler, Elmer Kelton, and others. The selections share a commitment to presenting fresh perspectives on traditional narrative themes of the West.

Saint Germain, the vampire count, visits the last of the Incas to learn what he can about their civilization before it is diluted by the Spanish invasion.

A millionaire and an army corporal meet under apparently random circumstances--a bomb blast that nearly claims their lives. As their friendship grows, Corporal Richard Garrison begins to have some doubts. When he is introduced to the Psychomech, he knows his fears are grounded. The Psychomech is a machine that can grant ultimate power to its user, but millionaire Thomas Schroeder isn't sure that it works: he needs a guinea pig, and Richard Garrison is it.

Isak Dinesen's collection of complex and allegorical short stories in the gothic mode, first published in 1934, concern themselves mainly with love and horror, and are peopled by ghosts, young maidens, courtiers, and monsters. In the first tale, The Deluge at Norderney, a monstrous flood strands four tourists in a hayloft, where they spend the night telling the stories of their lives. In the last tale, The Old Chevalier, an aged man falls in love with an indifferent prostitute who just may be Dinesen's prototype of a truly liberated woman. Most of the tales are set in a much earlier time -- the mid-19th century--which only adds to their exotic, fantastical flavor. This was Karen Blixen's first use of her pseudonym, which she devised so that editors would think she was a man and, presumably, look more kindly on her work.

A chilling anthology of classic suspense tales by the Grand Master of Horror includes such outstanding works as Duel, the tale upon which Stephen Spielberg based his acclaimed first film, as well as Born of Man and Woman, Little Girl Lost, Steel, and Third from the Sun. Simultaneous.

In an alternate world that darkly mirrors our own, the Gunslinger pursues The Man in Black in a harrowing struggle between good and evil.