Naked City, Ellen Datlow
Naked City, Ellen Datlow
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Naked City
Tales of Urban Fantasy

Author: Ellen Datlow

Narrator: various

Unabridged: 16 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/05/2011


Synopsis

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.

Contents
Curses, by Jim Butcher
How the Pooka Came to New York City, by Delia Sherman
On the Side, by Richard Bowes
The Duke of Riverside, by Ellen Kushner
Oblivion by Calvin Klein, by Christopher Fowler
Fairy Gifts, by Patricia Briggs
Picking Up the Pieces, by Pat Cadigan
Underbridge, by Peter S. Beagle
Priced to Sell, by Naomi Novik
The Bricks of Gelecek, by Matthew Kressel
Weston Walks, by Kit Reed
The Projected Girl, by Lavie Tidhar
The Way Station, by Nathan Ballingrud
Guns for the Dead, by Melissa Marr
And Go Like This, by John Crowley
Noble Rot, by Holly Black
Daddy Longlegs of the Evening, by Jeffrey Ford
The Skinny Girl, by Lucius Shepard
The Colliers’ Venus (1893), by Caitlin R. Kiernan
King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree, by Elizabeth Bear

About Ellen Datlow

ELLEN DATLOW has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty-five years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. In addition, she has edited more than a hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year series, The Doll Collection, Mad Hatters and March Hares, The Devil and the Deep, Echoes, Final Cuts, Body Shocks, and When Things Get Dark.She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar.


Reviews

Goodreads review by edge of bubble on February 13, 2017

Just read Briggs story. Nice.......more

Goodreads review by Willa on August 21, 2011

I couldn't wait for this book to come out, pre-ordered it, and then after it came out, even saved it and put off reading it so it would last. Silly me. I finally started it, and found myself skipping pages, trying to find something worth reading. Urban fantasy is sometimes difficult to describe, but......more

Goodreads review by Kathy on April 16, 2016

An anthology of 20 urban fantasies in a variety of cities.
 Series: "Curses" (The Dresden Files, 10.7) "Duke of Riverside" (The World of Riverside, 1.6 before and after Swordspoint, #1) "Guns for the Dead" (Graveminder, 1.6) "Fairy Gifts" (Mercyverse, 0.7) The Stories Jim Butcher's "Curses" is a funny tale......more

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on June 07, 2015

This book took me a very long time, peppered with a lot of breaks when I had to come up for air and read other books. Either it is not a very good collection, or urban fantasy is just not my thing. I found it tedious to get through.......more

Goodreads review by Panda on June 19, 2024

Audiobook (17 hours) narrated by several narrators, including: Eliza Foss, Nicola Barber, and Richard Topol. The narration and audio quality are high, without distortion, erroneous noise or obvious edits. Despite each story changing narration, the pacing and volume stays consistent throughout. The nar......more


Awards

  • Locus Awards - Nominee