STEPHEN D. SULLIVAN

Four frightening tales. A couple visiting a Ren Faire takes a terrifying trip in ""Renaissance Fear."" The ""House of Mirrors"" shows an aging bombshell that her past may be her future. A family of human canonballs risks everything when they plunge ""Into the Fire."" Finally, some Halloween pranksters get more than they bargained for in the Fros...

Is automation the future? Dr. Victor Von Lang thinks so, and he's hired brilliant-but-shy mechanic Zoe Tesla to help him. Their goal: to build a human-like worker robot -- the Automata Futura -- that can survive conditions too dangerous for human beings. Lang, a scientific genius, has a personal stake in the project: his wife was killed in an in...

THIS IS THE GENERAL AUDIENCES EDITION OF THIS BOOK.The last time she went out on a date, Faye nearly got sacrificed to a dragon. And this weekend ... Well, maybe it’s not quite as bad as that, but when an elf girl’s looking for her first-ever lay, she does not expect to wind up stark naked on Mars. Before you can say “really unlucky in love,” ou...