New York Fantastic

New York Fantastic: Fantastic Stories from the City That Never Sleeps

Peter S. Beagle: * "The Rock in the Park"-Nice Jewish boys meet up with a family of lost centaurs in a Bronx park.

Elizabeth Bear: * "Cryptic Coloration"-A mage disguised as an English professor defends the city against a monster. * "The Horrid Glory of its Wings"-An ugly harpy with bronze wings lives in the dumpster behind Desiree's building...

Holly Black: * "The Land of Heart's Desire"-A cafe where you can meet members of the Sidhe-fairies-in Manhattan.

Richard Bowes: * "A Huntsman Passing By"-The bouncer at a downtown art event finds himself in the middle of a fairy tale come true. * "Blood Yesterday, Blood Tomorrow"-A decades-spanning story about NYC flea markets and the cost of success. * "Venues"-Struggling artists and writers in NY will do anything for a little publicity...

Karl Bunker: * "Caisson"-A young man helping build the Brooklyn Bridge in 1871 copes with a friend who's too interested in the fossils they find on the riverbed.

Maria Dahvana Headley: * "The Tallest Doll in New York City"- A love affair between the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building told in Damon Runyonesque style.

Kat Howard: * "Painted Birds and Shivered Bones"-A reclusive painter seeks the anonymity of NYC, then she spies a man transforming into a bird near Ground Zero...

N. K. Jemisin: * "The City Born Great"-Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big and old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. [Alternate: New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife... and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.]

Caitlin R. Kiernan: * "La Peau Verte"-An absinthe fantasy of artist trapped between the viewing and the viewed.

Seanan McGuire: * "Red as Snow"-An "Incryptid" story. A shapeshifter loves her new life in the city, but then her family interferes...

George R. R. Martin: * "Shell Games"-An intriguing but insular man with telekinetic powers becomes New York City's greatest superhero.

Naomi Novik: * "Priced to Sell"- The real estate market in Manhattan is always an adventure, but being a broker for supernaturals is a real challenge.

Delia Sherman: * "How the Pooka Came to New York City"-A shapechanging Irish immigrant arrives in the new world. * "Grand Central Park"-A teenager wins the favor of Central Park's fairy Green Queen. * "CATNYP"-With the help of the NY Pblic Library, a changeling tries to prove humans know more of love than fairy folk.

John Shirley: * "...And the Angel with Television Eyes"-An actor wakes in his midtown Manhattan apartment to find a living, breathing griffin perched on his bed...

Peter Straub: * "Pork Pie Hat"-A legendary saxophonist-thought long dead-is alive and playing in an East Village club; he has an extraordinary story to tell...

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