Datlow, Ellen (ed) - Tails of Wonder and Imagination / Датлоу, Эллен (ред) - Сказки о воображаемых чудесах [2010, epub, ENG]

Through the Looking Glass (excerpt) / Сквозь зеркало и что там увидела Алиса, или Алиса в Зазеркалье (отрывок) by Lewis Carroll No Heaven Will Not Ever Heaven Be ... / Никакой Рай не будет Раем... short story by A. R. Morlan The Price / Цена short story by Neil Gaiman Dark Eyes, Faith, and Devotion / Тёмные очи, вера и преданность short story by Charles de Lint Not Waving / Не помахав рукой novelette by Michael Marshall Smith Catch / Приём подачи short story by Ray Vukcevich The Manticore Spell / Заклинание мантикоры short story by Jeffrey Ford Catskin / Кошачья шкурка novelette by Kelly Link Mieze Corrects an Incomplete Representation of Reality / Мице исправляет неполный образ реальности short story by Michaela Roessner Guardians / Хранители novelette by George R. R. Martin Life Regarded As a Jigsaw Puzzle of Highly Lustrous Cats / Жизнь как пазл, составленный из чрезвычайно лучезарных кошек novelette by Michael Bishop Gordon, the Self-Made Cat / Гордон: кот, который сделал себя сам short story by Peter S. Beagle The Jaguar Hunter / Охотник на ягуаров novelette by Lucius Shepard Arthur's Lion / Артуров лев short story by Tanith Lee Pride / Прайд short story by Mary A. Turzillo The Burglar Takes a Cat / Взломщик обзаводится котом short fiction by Lawrence Block The White Cat / Белая кошка novelette by Joyce Carol Oates Returns / Возвращения short story by Jack Ketchum Puss-Cat / Кошечка short story by Reggie Oliver Cat in Glass / Кошка в стекле short story by Nancy Etchemendy Coyote Peyote / Койот Пейот novelette by Carole Nelson Douglas The Poet and the Inkmaker's Daughter / Поэт и дочь изготовителя чернил short fiction by Elizabeth Hand The Night of the Tiger / Ночь тигра short story by Stephen King Every Angel Is Terrifying / Каждый ангел ужасен short story by John Kessel Candia / Кандия short story by Graham Joyce Mbo / Мбо short story by Nicholas Royle Bean Bag Cats / Кошки-пуфики short story by Edward Bryant Antiquities / Реликвии short story by John Crowley The Manticore's Tale / Сказка мантикоры short fiction by Catherynne M. Valente In Carnation / Воплощённая short story by Nancy Springer Old Foss Is the Name of His Cat / И Старым Фоссом все зовут его кота short story by David Sandner A Safe Place to Be / Безопасное место short story by Carol Emshwiller Nine Lives to Live / Девять жизней short story by Sharyn McCrumb Tiger Kill / Тигриная ловушка short story by Kaaron Warren Something Better Than Death / Что-нибудь получше смерти short story by Lucy Sussex Dominion / Господство short story by Christine Lucas Tiger in the Snow / Тигр в снегу short story by Daniel Wynn Barber The Dweller in High Places / Обитатель Высот short story by Susanna Clarke Healing Benjamin / Исцеление Бенджамина short story by Dennis Danvers The Puma / Пума short story by Theodora Goss

Your father-in-law, who insists that you call him Howie, even though you prefer Mr. Bragg, likes jigsaw puzzles. If they prove harder than he has the skill or the patience for, he knows a sneaky way around the problem. During the third Christmas season after your marriage to Marti, you find Howie at a card table wearing a parka, a blue watch cap with a crown of burgundy leather, and fur-lined shoes. (December through February, it is freezing in the Braggs' Tudor-style house outside Spartanburg.) He is assembling a huge jigsaw puzzle, for the Braggs give him one every Christmas. His challenge is to put it together, unaided by drop-in company or any other family member, before the Sugar Bowl kick-off on New Year's Day. This year, the puzzle is of cats. . . .