Cold Grey Stones

A Collection of Stories by the Late Great Mistress of Dark Fantasy

This collection's title says a lot about its contents. These eleven stories tend to the dark side of fantasy, and many deal with death and what lies after. The collection begins with a story about a cockatrice and a girl turned to stone, and also a cockatrice clock that menaces a digital artist. There are stories of a stone heart and a spirit hare, and a tombstone that haunts the apartment of a man down on his luck. There is a vampire forest and an inn that hosts the ghosts of its victims. All of these have the wonderful characters that spring from the words of Tainth Lee into the imagination of the reader. Sadly, she won't be writing any more wonderful tales for us, so we have to make the most of the legacy she left.

This collection is Volume # 1 of the "Imaginings" Series, which proposes to bring together previously uncollected work by a specific author, along with new purpose-written stories. It should be noted that there is a different version of this book called "Colder Greyer Stones" which is identified as Volume # 2 of the Imaginings Series. This is not a second volume of work, but an expansion of the original that contains one additional original novella by Ms. Lee that was inspired by the cover art. The potential buyer should be aware that this is the only difference in the two collections.