The doors of Castle Chansany open once more, and you are invited! Come make your bow to King Griffin and Queen Mellany; practice your cantrips with the Wizard Garstang; feast on all things sweet in the banqueting house, with the Court; and dance a minuet in the ballroom with Prince Armael, and the Lady Alvan. Perhaps you’d rather be down in the kitchens, spinning subtleties out of sugar, and dreams; in the library with the books (though be careful—they’ve minds of their own); making mellow music with the jongleurs, and the bards; or swapping stories with Jessamine, the Court Dragon. All this and more await you at the Castle, but you’d better make haste. The Court’s going out on Progress, and you don’t want to be late… Castle Chansany returns with six magical tales of wayward wizardry, wild whimsicality, and rampant mischief! Includes the stories: Rosewater and Wine A Fit of the Sullens Sumptuary Hurdy Gurdy Petty Wizardry Dreamstuff Contains: dragons and dreams, scintillating spellcraft, boisterous books, and dashing devilry. Don’t miss the previous stories of Jessamine the dragon, Garstang the Wizard, and all their colourful friends in volumes one and two!

Have you been to Castle Chansany? If you have, perhaps it’s time to go back. There’s strangeness afoot up there in the clouds. Something odd has got into the cakes; the sylphs are plotting fresh mischief; and if you look carefully, there might be an ancient Wizard to be found, slumbering somewhere sleepish, and in disguise. Moreover, Castle Chansany is on the move. Where can it be going? Well, nobody aboard could tell you. You’ll have to visit, to find out… This second collection in the tales of the Castle features five new stories: Strangeness Aloft Knavery Among His Majesty’s Roses Baldringa’s Blunder Sylphish and Strange Contains: dragons and disasters, magic and misdeeds, wizards and wiles, and smiles aplenty. Don’t miss the first stories of Jessamine the dragon, Garstang the Wizard, and Their Various Majesties, in volume one!

From the author of Wyrde and Wayward and Modern Magick: a collection of cosy, uplifting stories about an eccentric wizard, an irascible dragon, and the most unlikely of friendships. Welcome to the strangest place you’ve never been—and the most marvellous. There’s a castle up there in the sky, held aloft by wizardry and dreams. It’s the home of the most curious court in all the land; a place of queens and princes, scholars and bards, sylphs and scullery maids—not to mention the Wizard himself. Come visit. You’re as like as not to find the princess in the kitchens, spinning subtleties out of sugar. The wizard’s in his study, consulting with the spell-books, and the furniture. The king’s in the gardens with his roses; the queen is in her solar, where the plants, dream-woven, grow in every shape and colour. Meet Jessamine, a small dragon with a heart the size of the castle itself. Meet Paglar the cook, Tambul, the wizard’s apprentice; the best-of-all-chairs, and the wizard’s favourite carpet. Meet the sylphs, causing havoc in the Potionery. It’s the mad Court at Castle Chansany and everyone is welcome. Tea’s served at three, and there’s a banquet after. Don’t be late! Collected together for the first time, these sixteen tales of life at the curious castle explore relationships, belonging, and what it means to be human—and a little bit strange…

Miss Gussie Werth is the only ordinary lady in her family, without a single drop of magic to liven things up. Fortunately, she's just been abducted. Miss Gussie Werth has grown up surrounded by the most supernatural family in England. Nell talks to the dead, Lord Werth is too often found in the churchyard at the dead of night... and the less said about Lord Bedgberry, the better. Somehow, Gussie has been passed over by the family curse. She sups on chocolate, not blood; she's blissfully oblivious to spectres (except for Great-Aunt Honoria, of course); and she hasn't the smallest inclination to turn into a beast upon the full moon, and go ravening about the countryside. All things considered, her life has been unbearably placid and uninteresting. Thankfully, Gussie has just been abducted by a neighbouring family every bit as strange as her own... and as deliciously spectacular disasters start to stack up, she begins to suspect that she may not be quite as normal as she thought. Far from being ordinary, Gussie may well prove to be the worst Werth of them all… Meet the Regency-era Addams Family—full of spectres, gorgons, and polite, ravening monsters—in this fresh, absurd gothic fantasy by the author of Modern Magick and the Malykant Mysteries. "Strange and utterly delightful" (Olivia Atwater), Wyrde and Wayward's notorious House of Werth will sink its teeth into you and leave you wanting more.

To catch a killer, send a monster. There's a realm. Wreathed in ice and snow, drowning in the dark, Assevan needs a different kind of hero. There's a god. Merciless and cold, and quick to anger, the Lord of the Dead insists upon one thing only: vengeance for a murdered soul. And there's a man. A ruthless killer, Konrad is detective, judge and executioner in one. Dauntless, relentless, monstrous, he stands alone against the dark. Meet the Malykant. Justice will be served. Four cases. Four killers. Four executions. Dark fantasy and murder mystery collide in this first collection of the Malykant Mysteries.

The long-vanished draykon race has been restored to the Seven Realms, and the mystery of the istore stone is resolved. But Lady Eva Glostrum returns to Glour City with many questions unanswered. Who are the enigmatic sorcerers who woke the draykon? Their powers are beyond anything she has ever known. With one dead and one vanished - literally - Eva has little to go on save a book taken from a mysterious tower in the Lowers, its cover marked with the strange word "Lokant." Llandry Sanfaer is anxious to learn more about the glorious draykoni, whose story is so inexplicably bound up with her own. But when she brings another draykon back from the Long Sleep, she finds she has made a grave mistake. Worse, a white-haired sorcerer with a talent for mind control is stalking her across the Worlds... As war builds between humankind and draykoni, Eva must uncover the identities of the sinister white-haired practitioners - and come to terms with the truth of her own heritage. And Llandry must learn why she appears to be their primary target...

There's nothing more dangerous than an eligible duke... Every eligible young lady of the Teacup Isles wants to marry the Duke of Storm, except Miss Mnemosyne Seabourne, who is quite content on the shelf, thank you very much. All she wants is a quiet life and a good book. At a house party full of ruthless debutantes willing to employ sneaky sympathetic magic to win a husband of quality, Mneme joins forces with an enigmatic spellcracker to rescue the duke from being married against his will. Can Mneme save the Duke of Storm without becoming his bride? Will this caper ruin her reputation forever? Can teacups and hedgehogs be used as projectile weapons in emergencies? Why are attractive men more devastating when they roll up their sleeves? If you enjoy Regency house parties, witty romantic banter and high society sorcery, you'll adore this magical comedy of manners novella.