A Breviary of Fire

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”

The words of composer Gustav Mahler animate this collection of sixteen tales from award-winning author Marie Brennan, inspired by mythological and folkloric traditions around the world. Here you will find flames of revenge, immortality, and grace, as a valkyrie seeks peace, a queen weaves and unweaves her own fate, and a goddess vanishes from mortal memory — but never from the page.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

* This Is How
* Serpent, Wolf, and Half-Dead Thing
* The Waking of Angantyr
* Silence, Before the Horn
* Daughter of Necessity
* Your Body, My Prison, My Forge
* For the Fairest
* The Wives of Paris
* The Me of Perfect Sight
* The Gospel of Nachash
* Salt Feels No Pain
* At the Heart of Each Pearl Lies a Grain of Sand
* Centuries of Kings
* The Old Woman and the Tea
* Ghost and Fox
* Speak to the Moon
* Story notes