Recommendations from Hell - Charles De Lint

Forests of the Heart
	In Ireland, they call them the Gentry--elemental spirits of the land; old, displaced, amoral gods who toy with humans whenever they choose. When the Irish emigrated to the New World, a few Gentry came, too. But there was no place for them; the new land had its own land-spirits, the manitous. Homeless, the Gentry turned hard, and when an ambitious human offers a way to claim a place of their own, their suppressed rage comes to a boil. To that volatile stew, add a New Mexican healer, a sculptor with extraordinary psychic gifts, a young musician and her angry brother, and a vaguely discontented music-store owner and his gen-X staff, and there is plenty to sustain de Lint's reputation as premier urban fantasist.
Forests of the Heart - EXCERPT

Moonlight & Vines
	A second collection of tales set in the North American city of Newford (Dreams Underfoot, 1993). The milieu is ``Urban Faerie,'' a modern setting where characters blended from Old European and Native American myths and legends not only still exist but also interact with those inhabitants inclined to perceive them. One of the latter is author Christy Riddell, who narrates, or is told, stories deriving from this interplay. The twenty-two pieces include two original stories, four others that appeared only as limited edition chapbooks, and an original poem; the remainder are drawn from various collections and magazines.
Moonlight and Vines - INFORMATION

Some Place to be Flying
	*Once upon a time, at the beginning of the world, there were only the animal people....* *Someplace to Be Flying* is set in Newford and environs, and is steeped in corvid (crow family) mythology - a Trickster tale involving Raven and Coyote, and a flock of punky "crow girls" on modern city streets, detailing the effect of their presence on a group of ordinary people. While some of the characters previously introduced in the short stories "Heartfires," "Crow Girls" and "Twa Corbies" make return appearances, most of the cast is new. The hardcover edition of *Someplace to Be Flying* was published by Tor Books in February 1998. Macmillan published the U.K. hardcover edition in March.
Some Place to be Flying - Excerpt

Trader
	*Trader* is set in Newford and environs and deals with an instrument maker named Max Trader who wakes up one morning in somebody else’s body--that of Johnny Devlin, a local smalltime conman. Max’s body is inhabited by Johnny, who finds the change both welcome and convenient. The novel explores the question of identity: to what degree our identity relies on our own physical body, and how others’ perceptions of us affect who we really are. *Trader* will reacquaint readers with some of their favourite Newford characters and introduce a few new ones along the way. The hardcover edition of *Trader* was published by Tor Books in January, 1997.
The mass market edition was published in February, 1998.. Macmillan published the hardcover U.K. edition in August, 1997.
For those who want to read a few pages, check out the Tor Books site where an excerpt of the first few chapters is now available. The same section was also published in the World Horror Convention Program Book in May, 1996.