Ilana << Did you try Charles de Lint? Urban fantasy, sometimes horror. There are short stories collections "Legends Underfoot" , "Ivory and Horn" and "Moonlight and Vines", "Mulengro" (that is too close to horror for my tastes), "Green Mantle", "Some Place to be Flying", "Memory & Dream", "Onion Girl", "Forest of the Heart", "Jack of Kinrowan", "Yarrow", "Moonheart" & "Spiritwalk", "Trade" that is a bit different. >>
Tom Beck _Memory and Dream_ is a wonderful fantasy novel. Don't miss it! <VBG> And my favorite quote: "To paraphrase one of my heroes, Gene Wolfe, the difference between fiction based on reality and fantasy is simply a matter of range. The former is a handgun. It hits the target almost close enough to touch, and even the willfully ignorant can't deny that it's effective. Fantasy is a sixteen-inch naval rifle. It fires with a tremendous bang, and appears to have done nothing and to be shooting at nothing. Note the qualifier "appears". The real difference is that with fantasy - and by that I mean fantasy which can simultaneously tap into a cosmopolitan commonality at the same time as it springs from an individual and unique perspective. In this sort of fantasy, a mythic resonance lingers on - a harmonious vibration that builds in potency the longer one considers it, rather than fading away when the final page is read and the book is put away. Characters discovered in such writing are pulled from our inner landscapes ... and then set out upon the stories' various stages so that as we learn to understand them a little better, both the monsters and the angels, we come to understand ourselves a little better as well." >From diary of Katharine Mully Charles de Lint "Memory & Dream" Ilana
