Best Selling Books by Tanith Lee

For years, Roy Phipps has been secretively writing the sprawling and florid story of the mad poet Vilmos, a study of murder, angst, and alchemic magic. Then one evening Roy meets Vilmos-- Joseph Traskul is only a coincidental look-alike, but in those fatal minutes a terrible bond is formed. As the fiery shadows close in on him, Roy soon understands that he is now fighting for his own sanity, and probably for his life.

A collection of fantasy and horror stories.

Today, tomorrow, always...the white-haired girl from the marsh is running for her life down a derelict highway In a future world polluted to the point of dissolution, the trees are dead, the sky is yellow, and no birds sing. Everyone and everything is tinged with madness. For Eva Belmort there seems no role except to become some man''s plaything and drudge. Then, one day, arrives the stranger with the gun - with blue eyes and hair as white as her own. Roaming the tortured landscape in his wagon, Steel is a seller of death...but for Eva he provides hope of escape from Foulmarsh. Urged on by a power of love and hate impossible to fathom, Eva''s travels now take her to distant towns and villages full of danger and surprises - and arouse in her strong passions she cannot harness...

A novella by Tanith Lee, previously published only in a limited edition in 1988

In childhood something black settled on Mechail Korhlen and drank from his throat. Later somebody pitied him enough to kill his poor deformed body when he became an adult. But then he chose to return from beyond the veil to enact revenge and to follow Anjelen, ruler of the sinister monastery.

In medieval Eastern Europe, Vivia is claimed by a dark lord who weds her, seduces her, and makes her a vampire. Then Vivia''s mentor abandons her and she is found by Zulgaris, a handsome prince. He marries her but he cannot cure her hunger for blood. Is she doomed? And what will her pregnancy mean?

On the day of her wedding to Argul, Claidi is kidnapped by armed men in a hot-air balloon.

Earth is no longer humanity''s only home. Slowly they have colonised the galaxy, spreading ever outwards into the darkest reaches of Terran space. To some Earth is now a myth, a fairy-tale; stories told to them by their grand parents when they were children. To others the Earth is still the place they call home: a bleak, inescapable fact that must be endured in order to survive. In this exciting collection of stories chronicling the turbulent events of humanity''s struggle for survival six hundred years in our future, some of today''s leading science fiction writers take us from the vast depths of uncharted space to the surface of a shockingly different planet Earth, where civilisation is desperately trying to preserve the last shreds of its human identity.

Short story of the Flat Earth.