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Carrie Ryan
Carrie Ryan is the author of the young adult horror collection Slasher Girls & Monster Boys. If you enjoy dark, thrilling stories with a monstrous twist, you'll want to check out her work.
Rags & Bones
Explore a collection of classic tales given fresh, unique spins by a host of best-selling and award-winning young adult authors. From Saladin Ahmed's take on The Faerie Queene to Neil Gaiman's twisted version of "Sleeping Beauty," these stories offer new perspectives on old favorites. Discover how beloved narratives can be reimagined with unexpected turns and modern sensibilities.
Carrie Ryan is the author of the young adult horror collection Slasher Girls & Monster Boys. If you enjoy dark, thrilling stories with a monstrous twist, you'll want to check out her work.
Charles Vess is an artist known for his fantasy and comic book illustrations. His work can be seen in collections such as Rags & Bones and Firebirds, as well as Biblioteca Sandman vol. 03. He specializes in bringing mythical
Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer of fantasy for children and young adults. Born in Melbourne and now living in Sydney, he worked as a bookseller, editor, literary agent and marketing consultant before writing full time. He is best known for the Old Kingdom series, which began with Sabriel (1995) and continues through Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel and Goldenhand, and for The Keys to the Kingdom septet, one volume per day of the week from Mister Monday to Lord Sunday. His...
Holly Black is an American writer of fantasy for children, teenagers and adults. She was born in West Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1971, took a degree in English at The College of New Jersey, and published her first novel, Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, in 2002. She is best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, the middle-grade series she created with the illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and for the Elfhame books that began with The Cruel Prince. Valiant won the inaugural Andre Norton Award in 2006, and...
Kami Garcia is the author of the bestselling novel Enthralled. She writes young adult fantasy and supernatural thrillers that keep readers hooked.
Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author of fantasy, horror, thriller and romance novels for adults and teens. She debuted in 2001 with Bitten, the first novel in her Women of the Otherworld series, and has gone on to write the Darkest Powers, Darkness Rising, Age of Legends, Cainsville and Rockton series, among others. Her novel No Humans Involved was a New York Times bestseller, and The Rising won the Aurora Award for Best YA Novel in 2014. Her Otherworld novels inspired the television se...
Margaret Stohl is the author of the young adult fantasy novel Enthralled. Her work often explores themes of magic and adventure.
Melissa Marr, born July 25, 1972, is an American author of young adult and adult fantasy who taught college literature for a decade before turning to folklore-inspired fiction. She holds a BA from Bennington College and an MBA from Columbia Business School and lives in Arizona. Her debut, Wicked Lovely, launched a bestselling five-book faerie series; her adult novel Graveminder won the 2011 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. She also publishes adult romance under the pen name Ronnie Douglas...
Neil Gaiman (born 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire) is an English writer of novels, short fiction, comics, screenplays and audio drama. He worked as a journalist before moving into comics, where his DC series The Sandman, begun in 1989, recast the title character as Morpheus, lord of dreams, and became one of the most acclaimed comics of its era. His novels include Good Omens, written with Terry Pratchett, as well as Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline and The Oc...
Richard Yancey (b. 1962), also published as Rick Yancey, is an American novelist known for young adult fiction, including The 5th Wave trilogy and The Monstrumologist series, which won a Michael L. Printz Honor in 2010. He worked for over a decade as a field officer for the Internal Revenue Service before turning to writing full time in 2004, an experience recounted in his memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.
Saladin Ahmed (born October 4, 1975) is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer and a science fiction/fantasy poetry and prose writer. His 2012 book Throne of the Crescent Moon was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Ahmed's fiction has been published in anthologies and magazines including Strange Horizons, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2 and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. He is currently the writer...
Tim Pratt is the author of Other Worlds Than These, a collection of his imaginative short fiction. He writes science fiction and fantasy, crafting stories that explore new and unexpected places.