This short fiction collection from PW Best of the Year author Harry Connolly combines reprints from magazines and anthologies along with new, previously unpublished fiction, including the TWENTY PALACES novelette "The Hand Made Mask."

Praise for Harry Connolly's novels:

"Harry Connolly's vision is amazing." — Charlaine Harris

"[CHILD OF FIRE] is excellent reading and has a lot of things I love in a book: a truly dark and sinister world, delicious tension and suspense, violence so gritty you'll get something in your eye just reading it, and a gorgeously flawed protagonist. Take this one to the checkout counter. Seriously." — Jim Butcher

"An edge-of-the-seat read! Ray Lilly is the new high-water mark of paranormal noir." — Charles Stross, author of RULE 34

THE GREAT WAY: Complex world, tight action, awesome women as well as men; Connelly was good right out the gate, and just keeps getting better. — Sherwood Smith

"... one hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners, breathtaking holy moly of a
book." — C.E. Murphy

"One of the few urban magic books — for lack of a better term — novels I enjoyed last year was Harry Connolly's CHILD OF FIRE. And I loved it." — John Rogers, writer/producer LEVERAGE

Table of Contents:

The One Thing You Can Never Trust
Bad Little Girls Die Horrible Deaths
Lord Of Reavers
Beyond The Game
Don't Chew Your Food
Hounds And Moonlight
Eating Venom
Cargo Johnny
The Yellow Mark
Preservation
The Home Made Mask