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Queen Victoria's Book of Spells

This Gaslamp Fantasy anthology features all-new stories set in a magical Victorian Era, with entries from Jeffrey Ford, Tanith Lee, and others.

Renowned anthologist Ellen Datlow draws together some of today's most exciting historical fantasy authors for a bewitching journey into Victorian England. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells presents eighteen original stories ranging from steampunk adventures to Jane Austen-inspired works that some critics call Fantasy of Manners.

Contributors to this volume include both bestselling writers and exciting new talents such as Elizabeth Bear, James Blaylock, Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Kushner, Tanith Lee, Gregory Maguire, Delia Sherman, and Catherynne M. Valente, who present a vision of a nineteenth century invested (or cursed ) with magic.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2013

Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, Elizabeth Bear, James P. Blaylock

<B>Ellen Datlow</B> was editor of Sci Fiction, the multi award- winning fiction area of scifi.com, for almost six years. Previously, she was fiction editor of <I>Omni</I> for over seventeen years. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, two Bram Stoker Awards, the International Horror Guild Award, the 2002 and 2005 Hugo Award, and the 2005 Locus Award, for her work as an editor. Sci Fiction won the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Website. Datlow and Windling are the co-editors of over eleven original anthologies and of seventeen volumes of <I>The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror</I>. <br><br><I>Terri Windling</I> is an editor, writer, painter, and passionate advocate of mythic arts. She has won the World Fantasy Award seven times, as well as the Mythopoeic Award for her novel <I>The Wood Wife</I>. During the last two decades she's edited over twenty-five anthologies with Ellen Datlow, as well as several other anthologies, including one called <I>Faery</I>. Her paintings, which are based on folklore and feminist themes, have been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States, England, and France.

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