Witch Way to the Mall
Move over, urban fantasy—here comes suburban fantasy. What self-respecting witch, vampire, or werewolf would be caught dead—or undead—anywhere but the Big City, you may ask? Look, let's give the uncanny crew a little credit for intelligence: If they had the smarts to see the advantage in packing up and moving into the cities, why wouldn't they have the smarts to move out of said cities if it looked like they could get a better quality-of-life/death elsewhere? (Tough enough going about your otherworldly business and evading the occasional mob wielding halogen torches and designer pitchforks, but have you ever seen city real estate prices?)
So let's welcome our first group of supernatural suburbanites, the witches. Their powers are awesome, their methods of coping with the lumps, bumps, and idiosyncrasies of Suburbia are ingenious, and they always bring the loveliest gingerbread to the PTA bake sale. But whatever you do, don't try telling them that life in a non-city setting is bland, banal and boring, or you might get turned into . . . ribbit!
Stories of suburban sorcery by Harry Turtledove, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jan and S.M. Stirling, K. D. Wentworth, and more—including Esther Friesner herself.
Cover Art by Tom Kidd
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First printing, June 2009
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-3274-6 ISBN-10: 1-4391-3274-7
Copyright© 2009 by Esther M. Friesner Introduction copyright © 2009 by Esther M. Friesner "Birdwitching," copyright © 2009 by Harry Turtledove "Witch Warrior," copyright © 2009 by Steven Piziks "Nimue and The Mall Nymphs," copyright © 2009 by Lee Martindale "Tacos for Tezcatlipoca," copyright © 2009 by Kevin Andrew Murphy "The Darren," copyright © 2009 by Hildy Silverman "The Incident of the Inferno Grill," copyright © 2009 by Sarah A. Hoyt "Soot," copyright © 2009 by David Freer "The House of Lost Dreams," copyright © 2009 by Storm Christopher "Queen of Suburbia," copyright © 2009 by Selina Rosen "Twice A Year," copyright © 2009 by Esther M. Friesner "Neighborhood Witch," copyright © 2009 by David Vierling "Hex Education," copyright © 2009 by K. D. Wentworth "The Importance of Communication," copyright © 2009 by Jan and S. M. Stirling "Midnight at the Center Court," copyright © 2009 by David D. Levine "The Price of Beauty," copyright © 2009 by Robin Wayne Bailey "Making Love," copyright © 2009 by Brenda Clough "Yo Mom's A Dragon," copyright © 2009 by Eleanor S. Tupper "Witches Brew," copyright © 2009 by Berry Kercheval "The Fairwitch Project," copyright © 2009 by Daniel M. Hoyt "Valley Witch," copyright © 2009 by Julia S. Mandala "There Is No "I" In "Coven," copyright © 2009 by Jody Lynn Nye
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