Featuring original stories from 20 authors this dark captivating fabulous and fantastical collection Naked City is not to be missed! Edited by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow. In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today s hottest paranormal authors delight thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher s Curses Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs Fairy Gifts a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr s Guns for the Dead the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black s Noble Rot a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own. Delia Sherman Richard Bowes Ellen Kushner Christopher Fowler Pat Cadigan Peter S. Beagle Naomi Novik Matthew Kressel Kit Reed Lavie Tidhar Nathan Ballingrud John Crowley Jeffrey Ford Lucius Shepard Caitlin R. Kiernan and Elizabeth Bear also contribute to this fabulous collection.