Moonlight and Vines

by De Lint, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780312865184
• ISBN10: 031286518X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Tor Books

Summary

Familiar to Charles de Lint's ever-growing audience as the setting of the novels Memory & Dream, Trader, and Someplace to Be Flying, Newford is the quintessential North American city, tough and streetwise on the surface and rich with hidden magic for those who can see.Now de Lint returns to this extraordinary city for a third volume of short stories set there, including several never before published in book form. Here is enchantment under a street-lamp: the landscape of urban North America as only Charles de Lint can show it. "Blending Lovecraft's imagery, Dunsany's poetry, Carroll's surrealism, and Alice Hoffman's small-town strangeness", wrote Interzone on Dreams Underfoot, de Lint's Newford tales are "a haunting mixture of human warmth and cold inevitability, of lessons learned and prices to be paid".

Table of Contents

Author's Note	11	(2)
Sweetgrass & City Streets	13	(2)
Saskia	15	(26)
In This Soul of a Woman	41	(15)
The Big Sky	56	(24)
Birds	80	(12)
Passing	92	(24)
Held Safe by Moonlight and Vines	116	(16)
In the Pines	132	(16)
Shining Nowhere but in the Dark	148	(23)
If I Close My Eyes Forever	171	(18)
Heartfires	189	(13)
The Invisibles	202	(19)
Seven for a Secret	221	(17)
Crow Girls	238	(19)
Wild Horses	257	(22)
In the Land of the Unforgiven	279	(8)
My Life as a Bird	287	(24)
China Doll	311	(19)
In the Quiet After Midnight	330	(16)
The Pennymen	346	(17)
Twa Corbies	363	(10)
The Fields Beyond the Fields	373