Other books by Charles de Lint
Newford — (1990-2015) Each of these novels and story collections can stand alone, but they all take place in a fictional contemporary city (Newford) and have recurring characters. We’re presenting here the ones that we haven’t reviewed above.
Publisher: Welcome to Newford… Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the grey harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song.















Wildings — (2012-2014) Publisher: From one of the world’s leading fantasists comes an exhilarating new series that will thrill teen and adult readers alike. For the past six months, something has been happening to young people in Santa Feliz. Week after week, there’s news of another teen changing shape, transforming from human to wild animal and back again. The federal government has stepped in, running public service announcements calling for affected youth to turn themselves in for “orientation and training.” Josh Saunders has seen the news reports, but he is still unprepared when it happens to him. One minute he’s arguing with his mother’s boyfriend and the next, he is looming over the man, blood dripping from his claws — he has transformed into a mountain lion. When he switches back to his human body, he knows his life has changed forever. He has become a Wildling. Trusting only his best friends Des and Marina with his secret, Josh tries to return to regular living. But an encounter with Elzie, another Wildling, brings him unwanted attention from the authorities. And when an accidental betrayal reveals Josh’s secret, his carefully constructed cover is ripped apart, forcing his friends to intervene. They must grudgingly put their trust in others, including other Wildlings — and, most challenging, in each other — if they ever hope to save him.



The Riddle of the Wren — (1984) Publisher: Minda Sealy is afraid of her own nightmares. Then, one night, while asleep, she meets Jan, the Lord of the Moors, who has been imprisoned by Ildran the Dream-master — the same being who traps Minda. In exchange for her promise to free him, Jan gives Minda three tokens. She sets out, leaving the safety of her old life to begin a journey from world to world, both to save Jan and to solve “the riddle of the Wren” — which is the riddle of her very self. The Riddle of the Wren was Charles de Lint’s first novel.
Mulengro — (1985) Publisher: A series of bizarre murders are baffling the police, each death somehow connected with the city’s elusive gypsy community. The police are searching for a human killer, but the romanies know better. They have a name for the darkness that hunts them down, one by one — “Mulengro”.


The Harp of the Grey Rose — (1985) Publisher: He is the Songweaver, but before he was a master of song he was merely Cerin of Wran Cheaping — a seventeen-year-old orphan raised by a wildland witch. Then he encountered the Maid of the Grey Rose — the lone survivor of the war that devastated the Trembling Lands and the promised bride of Yarac Stone-Slayer, the feared and terrible Waster. The mysterious beauty captured Cerin’s heart, drawing him into a world both dark and deadly, until, armed with only a tinkerblade and the magic of song, he would take on a man’s challenge… and choose a treacherous path toward a magnificent destiny. The Harp of the Grey Rose is award-winning fantasist Charles de Lint’s first novel.
Greenmantle — (1988) Publisher: Not far from the city there is an ancient wood, forgotten by the modern world, where Mystery walks in the moonlight. He wears the shape of a stag, or a goat, or a horned man wearing a cloak of leaves. He is summoned by the music of the pipes or a fire of bones on Midsummer’s Evening. He is chased by the hunt and shadowed by the wild girl.
Wolf Moon — (1988) Charles de Lint: His name when he was human was Kern. Now he is the most feared of beings: a werewolf. When the change first came upon him, his parents drove him away with silver daggers. Later, he sought human companionship, but he could not hide the truth for long. And so he kept running until he ran headlong into the deadliest pursuer of all — a harper bent on stealing his life away. By chance Kern was able to find refuge at the Inn of the Yellow Tinker, and the woman he was destined to love. But can he risk both human and harper vengeance to keep her?
Svaha — (1989) Publisher: Out beyond the Enclaves, in the desolation between the cities, an Indian flyer has been downed. A chip encoded with vital secrets is missing. Only Gahzee can venture forth to find it — walking the line between the Dreamtime and the Realtime, bringing his people’s ancient magic to bear on the poisoned world of tomorrow. Bringing hope, perhaps, for a new dawn.
Angel of Darkness — (1990) Publisher: In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasies under the name “Samuel M. Key.” Now, beginning with Angel of Darkness, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint’s own name. When ex-cop Jack Keller finds the mutilated body of a runaway girl in the ashes of a bizarre house fire, he opens the door to a nightmare. For a sadistic experiment in terror has unleashed a dark avenging angel forged from the agonies of countless dying victims…
The Little Country — (1991) Publisher: Captivated by the unpublished manuscript she has found in her grandfather’s cottage, folk musician Janey Little is transported to the world described in the manuscript and into a tale of a bewitched young woman’s magical quest.
The Wild Wood — (1994) Publisher: A young artist returns to her cabin in the deep woods of Canada to concentrate on her illustrations. But somehow, strange and beautiful creatures are slipping into her drawings and sketches. The world of Faerie is reaching out to her for help — and she may be its last chance for survival.
Triskell Tales — (2000) A collection of stories. Charles de Lint: Every year at Christmas time I write a short story for MaryAnn that I publish in chapbook form through my Triskell Press imprint. I’ve been doing this for twenty-two years now; the earliest stories were printed in editions of only one copy. It wasn’t long before we decided to share the chapbooks as a Christmas gift for friends and family. In recent years, the stories have been reprinted in magazines, convention program books and my own short story collections — but their first breath of life has always been in chapbook form. Along the way, I’ve had a few small press publishers offer to do a limited edition collection of these stories, but the time never felt right until now. MaryAnn and I thought that it would be fun to celebrate the millennium with a hardcover edition of all the chapbook stories to date… Many of the earlier stories have never been reprinted. Some of the chapbooks also contained poetry that has seen very limited publication or none whatsoever. (One chapbook, about our first magical visit to the Tuscon area, was all poetry with a couple of transcribed fiddle tunes that I wrote.) We’re also including a few other items, such as a pair of short stories commissioned by our local community newspaper, one of which was a collaboration with MaryAnn. And to top it off, MaryAnn has agreed to provide a full-colour painting for the cover, along with several b&w interior illustrations.
Waifs and Strays — (2002) Young adult story collection. Publisher: Charles de Lint is a thirteen-time finalist for the World Fantasy Award, and eight of his books were chosen for the reader-selected Modern Library Top 100 Books of the Twentieth Century. His best-selling and award-winning work has always featured teenage characters. Here, at long last, is a collection of his stories about teenagers-a book for teen and adult alike. From the streets of his famed Newford to the alleys of Bordertown to the realms of Faerie, this is speculative fiction that will tranfix and delight, that will make readers think and feel and keep reading. Waifs and Strays is a must-own for de Lint fans, and an ideal introduction to his work for newcomers.
A Handful of Coppers — (2003) A story collection focusing on heroic fantasy. Publisher: This collection of early tales, some of them unpublished, is essential reading for fans of World Fantasy Award-winner de Lint (The Onion Girl). The six Aynber and Thorn yarns that open the volume (“Wizard’s Bounty,” etc.) are chock full of slashing swords, magic and evil sorcerers, but lack depth. The three set pieces about Colum mac Donal, an outlawed Irish berserker who becomes part of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table, exhibit more compassion and better plotting. The last and most compelling Colum piece, “The Fair in Emain Macha,” deals with his return to his family in Ireland and the subsequent “King-Breaking.” Somewhat atypical is “The Skin & Knife Game” (co-written with Lee Barwood), a fantasy-horror melange of creepy madness. All the stories are short and a bit light on the wordsmithing readers have come to expect from this master fantasist, but they are nonetheless fun to read and right on target for the sword-and-sorcery crowd. 
Quicksilver & Shadow — (2005) Charles de Lint: Quicksilver & Shadow is the second volume of my early short story collections. It focuses on the early contemporary, dark fantasy and science fiction stories, and it finally brings all of my Bordertown stories together in one place. The cover is done by MaryAnn Harris.
Triskell Tales 2 — (2006) A collection of stories. Charles de Lint: Every year at Christmas time I write a short story for MaryAnn that I publish in chapbook form through my Triskell Press imprint. I’ve been doing this for twenty-two years now; the earliest stories were printed in editions of only one copy. It wasn’t long before we decided to share the chapbooks as a Christmas gift for friends and family. In recent years, the stories have been reprinted in magazines, convention program books and my own short story collections — but their first breath of life has always been in chapbook form.
What the Mouse Found — (2008) A story collection for ages 9-12. Publisher: This special collection gathers for the first time a number of obscure and unpublished children’s stories by master storyteller Charles de Lint, each story featuring a brand new illustration.
Yellow Dog — (2008) Charles de Lint: Yellow Dog was the Christmas chapbook from 2007. This a story which takes place in the American Southwest. It will be printed in two colors throughout, with a cover and several interior illustrations by me.
The Painted Boy — (2010) Young adult. Publisher: Jay Li should be in Chicago, finishing high school and working at his family’s restaurant. Instead, as a born member of the Yellow Dragon Clan — part human, part dragon, like his grandmother — he is on a quest even he does not understand. His journey takes him to Santo del Vado Viejo in the Arizona desert, a town overrun by gangs, haunted by members of other animal clans, perfumed by delicious food, and set to the beat of Malo Malo, a barrio rock band whose female lead guitarist captures Jay’s heart. He must face a series of dangerous, otherworldly — and very human — challenges to become the man, and dragon, he is meant to be. This is Charles de Lint at his best!
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