This 100,000-word collection of stories--supernatural and crime--essays and interviews brings together work from the two out of print hardback collections, Shadows at Midnight and Echoes of Darkness, as well as other stories published, and unpublished, over recent years. With the companion volume The Secret Geography of Nightmare, this is the complete Maynard-Sims story to 2000. Together they feature work never before published in USA. This is Bram Stoker Award-nominated work from two first class writers of style and quality.

From bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Here is a thing everyone wants: A miracle.Here is a thing everyone fears:What it takes to get one.Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel, the Saint of Bicho Raro, who performs miracles for everyone but himself; and Joaquin, who spends his nights running a renegade radio station under the name Diablo Diablo. They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.

This 100,000-word collection of stories, supernatural and crime essays, and interviews brings together work from the two out of print hardback collections, Shadows at Midnight and Echoes of Darkness, as well as other stories published, and unpublished, over recent years. With the companion volume Selling Dark Miracles, this is the complete Maynard-Sims story to 2000. Together they feature work never before published in USA. This is Bram Stoker Award nominated work from two first class writers of style and quality.

Miracles were happening in Stanhope, Minnesota. Impossible cures, amazing recoveries. All due to a pool of pitch-black water that had bubbled up mysteriously from the depths of the earth. Sometimes it glowed with a beckoning light. Sometimes it reflected only glittering darkness. It always gave the gift of life … but what would it demand in return? Ten-year-old Allison Kent knew her parents hadn't really believed a dip in the famous pool would make her well again. They were just pretending so she wouldn't be scared. But it did work and she was better … except for the cruel voices in her head that whispered of retribution and death. And the dangerous, uncontrollable powers she had over the world around her. Lately she was afraid that whatever lived beneath the water had healed her for an evil purpose all its own …