Part biological thriller, part sci-fi, and part human comedy,"Oaths and Miracles" is the tale of a loopy FBI investigator who gets handed a big murder case involving genetic engineering and the Mafia. Unfortunately, the investigator would rather woo his ex-wife by fax than pay too much attention to his informant, whose biologist husband was murdered while working on the project.

In a small town out west, Odd Thomas works as a short-order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill. But he also communicates with ghosts, and has a particular talent for scoping out bad spirits called bodachs. When he finds a clutch of them hanging around with a stranger who has come to town, Odd starts to worry--and before long, he finds evidence that the stranger may be a serial killer. The question is, who's next? And can Odd stop the new wave of violence before it starts?

A chilling plot to reestablish the German Secret Service is unveiled when an elderly Holocaust survivor commits suicide and reveals the existence of a sinister organization with the acronym ODESSA.

Twenty short stories by Neil Gaiman, Richard Christian Matheson, Bruce McAllister and others.

A curse laid on the town of Point Vestal makes time behave very oddly indeed: ghosts from a hundred years ago play pool with tourists, and criminals repeat their crimes over and over. When Joel-Andrew and his talking cat come to town, things get even stranger. Cady has won the Nebula Award, the Iowa Prize for Short Fiction, and the "Atlantic Monthly" First Award.

In this combination memoir and writing guide, best-selling author Stephen King tells of how he came to be a writer and, in the process, explores many aspects of writing, from plot construction through some of the nuts and bolts of getting a book published. Much of his advice is quite traditional: find a quiet place to work, concentrate on character, master grammar and punctuation, keep THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE handy. And, like all good writers, he stresses the primary importance of reading, and in an amusing reconstruction of his childhood and teenage years, he writes about his obsession with books (among other things). The section in which he relates his brush with death after being hit by a drunken driver is especially compelling--very much like a Stephen King novel.

In this combination memoir and writing guide, best-selling author Stephen King tells of how he came to be a writer and, in the process, explores many aspects of writing, from plot construction through some of the nuts and bolts of getting a book published. Much of his advice is quite traditional: find a quiet place to work, concentrate on character, master grammar and punctuation, keep THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE handy. And, like all good writers, he stresses the primary importance of reading, and in an amusing reconstruction of his childhood and teenage years, he writes about his obsession with books (among other things). The section in which he relates his brush with death after being hit by a drunken driver is especially compelling--very much like a Stephen King novel.

In this reworked version of "Beauty and the Beast," upon learning that her husband-to-be spends his days as a bear (due to a curse, don't you know), young Camille sets off into the world to find the cure.

In Miami, a happily married expatriate Cuban lawyer named Margarita struggles with the choice between continuing her high-powered job or staying home with her small son. Trying out the domestic life, she gets bored and begins an affair with an old beau--and now faces another dilemma that is only complicated further when she becomes pregnant.

An American family in London has a run-in with criminal Phil Fancy and finds that the media excoriates them as the villains while Fancy is freed to further terrorize their family.

A serial killer invades the peaceful Swedish city of Ystad, and Chief Inspector Kurt Wallander soon finds that the killer is no ordinary criminal but an evil man determined on a most unusual--and deadly--mission.