Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond

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Overview

Fans have fallen for bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan, eagerly awaiting her next adventure. This collection of short works features tales involving Rachel and her coterie of friends and enemies, including three never-before-published stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780594795018
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	07/02/2013
Series:	Hollows Series
Pages:	513
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison was born and raised in the upper Midwest. Her bestselling Hollows novels include Dead Witch Walking; The Good, the Bad, and the Undead; Every Which Way But Dead; A Fistful of Charms; For a Few Demons More; The Outlaw Demon Wails; White Witch, Black Curse; Black Magic Sanction; Pale Demon, A Perfect Blood, Ever After, and The Undead Pool, plus the short story collection Into the Woods, The Hollows Insider and graphic novels Blood Work and Blood Crime. She also writes the Madison Avery series for young adults.

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Charlaine Harris

“I wouldn’t miss a Kim Harrison book for anything.”

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Editorial Reviews

Harrison's Hollows series remains one of the more solid and satisfying islands in the current sea of novels involving vampires, demons, and werewolves. Hollows fans will be enthralled by the first half of this short story collection, which offers glimpses of history and new insights into many familiar characters, including demon Algaliarept, vampire Ivy Tamwood, and Jenks the pixie; first-time readers will find the stories an accessible and intriguing introduction to the series. The second half of the book goes outside of the Hollows to introduce other fantasy creatures with Harrison's unique spin, such as the dryads who Will Temson inadvertently inherits in "Temson Estates" and the angry tree spirit with whom grandmother Emily, mother Meg, and child Lilly must come to terms in "Spider Silk." Harrison's talent for making supernaturals understandable, likable, and engaging is amply demonstrated in this strong collection. Agent: Richard Curtis, Richard Curtis Associates. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

For the first time, all of Kim Harrison’s shorter pieces are gathered together in one volume...A must read for Harrison fans.

Booklist on Into the Woods

I wouldn’t miss a Kim Harrison book for anything.

Charlaine Harris

With more than 2.5 million “Hollows” books in print, Harrison has definitely tapped a nerve — or a magical ley line.

San Antonio Express-News

Her work can read like a smoldering combination of Alice Waters and Ozzy Osbourne.

New York Times Book Review

Kim Harrison creates another fun, compelling installment of her urban fantasy series with White Witch, Black Curse.

Daytona Beach News

Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Tank Girl.

Entertainment Weekly

The Rachel Morgan series is fast becoming one of the hottest tickets in the urban-fantasy subgenre.

Booklist

Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake series will be drawn to Harrison’s smart, supernatural series.

Booklist Previews

With more than 2.5 million “Hollows” books in print, Harrison has definitely tapped a nerve — or a magical ley line.

San Antonio Express-News on Pale Demon

With this short fiction collection, Harrison offers a new view of the Hollows—haunt of bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan in Harrison's best-selling series—while spinning out a few new fantasy worlds. Included are three new novellas, e.g., "Million Dollar Baby," featuring elven tycoon Trent Kalamack's efforts to rescue his daughter with the help of a pixy named Jenks, plus all her previously published short fiction.

Library Journal

A collection of old and new novellas, novelettes and short stories from urban-fantasy author Harrison (A Perfect Blood, 2012, etc.), mostly taking place inside her Hollows fictional universe. Harrison is known for her urban-fantasy novels, beginning with 2004's Dead Witch Walking. Largely set in an alternate version of present-day Cincinnati some 40 years after a horrific plague, her Hollows setting features witches, werewolves, demons and vampires, among other supernatural characters. This new collection, which Harrison dedicates "[t]o the readers," brings together Harrison's previously published Hollows short fiction going back several years, as well as a new Hollows novella and four stories set outside the Hollows universe. Though a few of the stories feature Harrison's main protagonist, the tough bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan, several give supporting characters a shot at the limelight. For example, in the previously unpublished "Million Dollar Baby," she tells the story of an adventure that the elf Trent Kalamack and the pixy Jenks undertook in Seattle during the time frame of the 2011 novel Pale Demon, while the relatively brief story "The Bespelled," first published as a bonus with the 2008 mass-market edition of The Outlaw Demon Wails, centers on the demon Algaliarept. Other stories feature vampires and dryads in non-Hollows settings. Though most of the stories here were written for one-off anthologies, all are solid urban-fantasy tales, and her fans will find much to appreciate. Harrison also helpfully supplies brief introductions for each story, providing context for each, as well as background detail into each story's creation. A comprehensive and well-constructed collection, sure to be welcomed by Harrison's fans.

Kirkus Reviews