title: On a Raven's Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, James W. Hall, Rupert Holmes, S. J. Rozan, Don Winslow, and Fourteen Others
author: Stuart Kaminsky
description: The Mystery Writers of America also presents an anthology of 20 new short stories, ranging from the uninterestingly derivative to the truly memorable. Fortunately, the volume boasts more hits than misses, most impressively Dorothy Salisbury Davis's chilling Emily's Time, the tale of an intellectual's descent into isolation and madness with an appropriately ambiguous ending. The always reliable Peter Lovesey easily blends the real-life questions surrounding Poe's early death into The Deadliest Tale of All. Daniel Stashower, who's written the definitive study of the Mary Rogers murder case (<I>The Beautiful Cigar Girl</I>) that inspired one of Poe's detective tales, creatively reinterprets the master in Challenger, a coming-of-age story set in Ohio. Other notable contributors include Thomas H. Cook, S.J. Rozan and the late Edward D. Hoch. <I>(Jan.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  The Mime Order
  
  Samantha Shannon
  
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   _For the fighters—_
  
   _and the writers_
  
  >  _Mimes, in the form of God on high,_
  
  >  _Mutter and mumble low,_
  
  >  _And hither and thither fly—_
  
  >  _Mere puppets they, who come and go_
  
  >  _At bidding of_ _vast formless things_
  
  >  __
  
  > Edgar Allan Poe
  
  Contents
  
   _Map of I-5_
  
   _A Note to the Reader_
  
  PART I - The Rogue Dial
  
  > 1Alight
  
  > 2Long Story
  
  > 3Then There Were Five
  
  > 4Grub Street
  
  > 5Weaver
  
  > 6Seven Dials
  
  > 7Under the Rose
  
  > 8On the Devil’s Acre
  
  > 9The Bloody King
  
  PART II - The Rephaite Revelation
  
  Interlude
  
  10Ding Dong Bell
  
  11Urban Legend
  
  12Fool’s Errand
  
  13Thief
  
  14Arcturus
  
  15The Minister’s Cat
  
  16Flower and Flesh
  
  17Gambler
  
  18The Patron’s Puppet
  
  19Ciuleandra
  
  PART III - The Monarch Days
  
  Interlude
  
  20Misprints
  
  21Symbiosis
  
  22The Grey Market
  
  23Liminal
  
  24The Rose Ring
  
  25Danse Macabre
  
  26Thaumaturge
  
  27The Mutual Friend
  
   _The Seven Orders of Clairvoyance_
  
   _Glossary_
  
   _Acknowl