Brand-new contributions to the hoard of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors. Orson Scott Card's "In the Dragon's House" is a gothic yarn about the mysterious dragon that lives in the wiring of an old house, noticed by a young boy who shares its body in dreams and feels its true size and power. Mercedes Lackey's "Joust" tells the story of a slave boy who is chosen to care for a warrior's dragon--a dragon whose secrets may be the key to his freedom. Tanith Lee's "Love in a Time of Dragons" is a fable is imbued with her signature atmosphere--Old World, moody, erotic--as a kitchen maid goes a-questing with a handsome champion to slay the local drakkor. Elizabeth Moon's "Judgment" tells the tale of a young man forced by lies to flee his village . . . into an adventure of dwarfs and dragonspawn. Michael Swanwick's "King Dragon" invokes a truly sinister and repellent creature--a being with the soul of a beast and the body of a machine--part metal, part devil . . . all merciless.

Brand-new contributions to the hoard of dragon lore by five top fantasy authors.

National best-selling fantasy author Mercedes Lackey creates a vivid, dynamic fusion of the cultures of ancient Egypt and legendary Atlantis with the most exciting and believable portrayal of dragons ever imagined. The first book in this thrilling new series introduces us to a young slave who dreams of becoming a jouster-one of the few warriors who can actually ride a flying dragon. And so, in secret, he begins to raise his own dragon...

The five popular novels featuring Cadderly, the heroic scholar priest, come together in a giant omnibus edition that includes Canticle, In Sylvan Shadows, Night Masks, The Fallen Fortress, and The Chaos Curse. Reprint.

Myth. Legend. Dream. A kingdom torn apart and left for crows. Those exiled plot their return. The conquerors, to exterminate the rebels who remain. Memories born in fire have been cleansed with ice. New heroes born while ancients perish. GUARDIANS & LEGENDS, an epic fantasy quintet, tells the story of the epic adventures that brought hope to those with none in places where men walk in ice and fire. This bundle includes five novels: BOOK 1: The DRAGON, THE WIZARD & THE GREAT DOOR: Enter a frozen world of frost beasts, hoar hounds, tundra cats, snow trolls, and ice giants. Discover the battle bear troops and a great golden dragon from an age long since past. BOOK 2: A LEGACY OF DRAGONS: Vilmos and Adrina learn more about their true powers while ancients struggle for control and those once thought immortal begin to perish. Can Vilmos and his friends survive the treachery and betrayals afoot? BOOK 3: MEMORIES OF FIRE: Fleeing the Ice to a land of fire may bring answers to everything that's happening. But can truth ever be unraveled from lies? Can Vilmos and his friends survive the tests ahead? BOOK 4: BREATH OF FIRE: When dragon clans rule with fire and terror, mortal enemies must set aside their differences and unite. In this fight war is not the greatest threat, extinction is. But is it too late for their kind? Is it too late to save what’s left of their society? BOOK 5: LIVING FIRE: To restore the honor of his people, Rastín became a gladiator. Now he must survive the games of the colosseum even though his dragon masters wish daily for his death. But killing a gladiator such as Rastín requires increasing spectacle to appease the masses. Robert Stanek’s KINGDOMS and DRAGONS books introduced readers to RUIN MIST and the chronicles of the lost ages of the HUNDRED WORLDS penned by Keeper Martin. The Ruin Mist books have gone on to sell over a million copies worldwide and have been translated into many languages. GUARDIANS & LEGENDS connects the ancient past of Ruin Mist with its foreshadowed future, telling an epic fantasy adventure story of tragedy, betrayal, hope, ice, and fire. Whether you are a new reader or already a fan, you can begin your journey into RUIN MIST and the HUNDRED WORLDS right here.

Do you believe in ghosts? You will after reading these original short novels from four of today's best writers of the fantastic. Brian Lumley, a Grand Master of Horror and author of the popular Necroscope series, opens the collection with the tense "A Place of Waiting." The moors of Devon, England, are home to many ghosts, but none as fearsome as the red-eyed specter that refuses to accept his death. His only chance of release, however, comes at a terrible cost. Orson Scott Card puts a new spin on one of literature's most famous ghosts in "Hamlet's Father." What if the former King of Denmark was not killed by his treacherous brother for his crown, but by someone entirely unexpected as punishment for the darkest of crimes? Would his troubled son still seek revenge? The patrons of an Edinburgh tavern are introduced to a beverage with an unusual history in "The Haunted Single Malt" by Marvin Kaye, a clever and spooky story about ghost stories and the people who love them. Tanith Lee offers "Strindberg's Ghost Sonata," a chilling tale set in an alternate Russia. When a poor man is rescued from certain death by hospitable strangers, he discovers that he is not a guest in their haunted tenement building--he is a prisoner destined to become a sacrifice. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dragons Earth and Water, and their human companions, go up against Fire, who has chosen to become a god instead of a guardian, and search for Air, who has disappeared, as the World teeters on the edge of extinction.