With an introduction by Cecilia Tan. M. Christian proffers characters that are re-engineered and specially designed to fulfil every person's fantasy, yet thrive in a dynamic, futuristic sexual universe. Held together by the common thread of human sexuality, these stories embody adventures and explorations into our darkest and most hidden desires. Both raw and explicit in detail, Christian's writing produces characters who exude power, sensuality and exceptional knowledge in satisfying their desires.

For ten years Circlet has defined a new genre of erotica, erotic science fiction and fantasy. Erotic Fantastic brings twenty three of the finest examples from Circlet's books and anthologies together. Including stories from many books that are out of print, Erotic Fantastic provides a thrilling read that tests the limits of humanity and sexuality. Book jacket.

In a dark fantasy based on the fairy tale "Snow White," Arpazia and her unwanted daughter, Coira, are lured into the woods by the elder gods, who are seeking to restore their worship in a land where a new religion threatens to transform life for everyone.

With her parents lost, Princess Benevolence ends up under the thumb of the conniving Queen Sophia. Locked in the castle's highest tower, Ben stumbles upon a mysterious enchanted room. So begins her secret education in the magical arts.

"Genre-bending and darkly comic, Grushin's fourth novel is a weird and wonderful triumph." –O, the Oprah Magazine Cinderella wants her Prince Charming dead in this sophisticated fairy-tale for the twenty-first century. Cinderella married the man of her dreams--the perfect ending she deserved after diligently following all the fairy-tale rules. Yet now, thirteen and a half years later, things have gone badly wrong and her life is far from perfect. One night, fed up and exhausted, she sneaks out of the palace to get help from the Witch who, for a price, offers love potions to disgruntled housewives. But as the old hag flings the last ingredients into the cauldron, Cinderella doesn't ask for a love spell to win back her Prince Charming. Instead, she wants him dead. Endlessly surprising, wildly inventive, and decidedly modern, The Charmed Wife weaves together time and place, fantasy and reality, to conjure a world unlike any other. Nothing in it is quite what it seems--the twists and turns of its magical, dark, and swiftly shifting paths take us deep into the heart of what makes us unique, of romance and marriage, and of the very nature of storytelling.

Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.

One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).

In this bold venture into the realm of futuristic erotica, eleven gifted sex-writers offer sizzling, sharp stories about the intersection of the sexual and the societal. Delving into the way in which the construction of a utopia would reconstruct sexual practice, these authors have stretched the limits of their imagination to create an enticing and thought-provoking range of erotic possibilities. Features M Christian, Eric Del Carlo, Catherine Asaro and many more esteemed authors.