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the official Sarah Monette Website

How to order my books and/or the magazines in which my stories and poems appear.

NOVELS

Mélusine (Ace Books, 2005). (Also out in paperback.)

• Cover art by Judy York
• Reviews

The Virtu (Ace Books, 2006).

• Read Chapter One here.
• Chapter Two.
• Chapter Three.
• Chapter Four.
• Cover art by Judy York

The Mirador (Ace Books, 2007).

• Chapter One | plain-text
• Chapter Two | plain-text
• Chapter Three | plain-text
• Chapter Four | plain-text

Corambis (Ace Books, 2009).

A map of Mélusine.
And an explanation of the calendrical systems.

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A Companion to Wolves, co-written with the remarkable Elizabeth Bear. Tor Books, 2007.

SHORT STORIES

COLLECTION

The Bone Key. Prime Books, 2007.

ON THIS WEBSITE

• "Meta" (drabble)
• "Queen of Swords"
• "The Vampire Smokes a Reflective Cigarette" (poem)
• "Wait for Me, a novelette from The Bone Key

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "Amante Dorée." PARADOX 10 (Winter 2006): 4-11. Reprinted in TROCHU DIVNE KUSY 3 (in press).
• "Ashes, Ashes." ALL HALLOWS: THE JOURNAL OF THE GHOST STORY SOCIETY (in press).
• "The Bone Key." SAY... WHAT'S THE COMBINATION? [SAY... 6] (May 2007): 31-41. Reprinted in THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 71-90.
• "Boojum" [with Elizabeth Bear]. FAST SHIPS, BLACK SAILS, eds. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Night Shade Books (in press).
• "Bringing Helena Back." ALL HALLOWS: THE JOURNAL OF THE GHOST STORY SOCIETY 35 (February 2004): 92-100. Reprinted in THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 13-28.
• "Darkness, as a Bride." CEMETERY DANCE (in press).
• "Draco campestris." STRANGE HORIZONS (August 2006). Reprinted in BEST AMERICAN FANTASY, eds. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer and Matthew Cheney, Prime Books (2007): 95-104.
• "Drowning Palmer." ALL HALLOWS: THE JOURNAL OF THE GHOST STORY SOCIETY 41 (February 2006): 63-80. Reprinted in THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 123-154. Reprinted in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR XX, eds. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant, St. Martin's Griffin, 2007: 110-127.
• "Elegy for a Demon Lover." TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED 26 (October 2005): 72-77. Reprinted in THE BEST OF THE REST 4, ed. Brian Youmans. Sunnyvale, CA: Suddenly Press, 2006: 109-118. Reprinted in THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 169-182.
• "A Gift of Wings." THE QUEEN IN WINTER. New York: Ace Books, 2006. 247-312.
• "The Green Glass Paperweight." TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED 25 (August 2004): 86-90. Reprinted in THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 231-240.
• "The Half-Sister." LADY CHURCHILL'S ROSEBUD WRISTLET 15 (January 2005): 25-27.
• "The Ile of Dogges" [with Elizabeth Bear]. AEON 7 (May 2006). Reprinted in THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION XXIV, ed. Gardner Dozois (in press).
• "The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox." LOVECRAFT'S WEIRD MYSTERIES 7 (May 2004): 14-22. Reprinted in THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 155-168.
• "Katabasis: Seraphic Trains." TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED 27 (2006): 8-20.
• "Letter from a Teddy Bear on Veterans' Day." IDEOMANCER 5.3 (September 2006). Reprinted in BEST NEW FANTASY 2, ed. Sean Wallace (in press).
• "A Light in Troy." CLARKESWORLD MAGAZINE 1 (October 2006). Reprinted in BEST NEW ROMANTIC FANTASY, ed. Paula Guran. Rockville, MD: Juno Books-Wildside Press, 2007. 24-29. Reprinted in REALMS: THE CLARKESWORLD MAGAZINE ANTHOLOGY (in press).
• "Listening to Bone." THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 241-254.
• "National Geographic On Assignment: Mermaids of the Old West." FICTITIOUS FORCE 2 (Spring 2006): 18.
• "A Night in Electric Squidland." LONE STAR STORIES 15 (June 2006).
• "No Man's Land." FICTITIOUS FORCE (in press).
• "Queen of Swords." ALIENSKIN MAGAZINE (November 2003).
• "The Séance at Chisholm End." ALCHEMY 3 (May 2006): 56-68.
• "Sidhe Tigers." LADY CHURCHILL'S ROSEBUD WRISTLET 13 (November 2003): 58.
• "Somewhere Beneath Those Waves Was Her Home." FANTASY MAGAZINE. Prime Books, 2007. 31-50.
• "Straw." STRANGE HORIZONS (June 2004).
• "Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland." LADY CHURCHILL'S ROSEBUD WRISTLET 11 (November 2002): 20-27. Reprinted in TROCHU DIVNE KUSY 2. Laser-books, 2006: 473-483. Reprinted in SO FEY: QUEER FAERY FICTION, ed. Steve Birman. Binghampton, NY: Haworth Positronic Press, 2007: 73-86. Reprinted in THE BEST OF LADY CHURCHILL'S ROSEBUD WRISTLET, eds. Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link. New York: Del Rey, 2007: 116-131. Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Short Fiction, 2003.
• "Under the Beansidhe's Pillow." LONE STAR STORIES 22 (August 2007).
• "The Venebretti Necklace." ALCHEMY 2 (September 2004): 44-73. Reprinted in THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 29-70.
• "Wait for Me." NAKED SNAKE ONLINE (September 2004). Reprinted in THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 91-122.
• "The Wall of Clouds." ALCHEMY 1 (December 2003): 45-82. Reprinted in THE BONE KEY, Prime Books, 2007: 183-230.
• "The World Without Sleep." POSTSCRIPTS (in press).
• "Why Do You Linger?" SUBTERRANEAN MAGAZINE (in press).
• "The Yellow Dressing Gown." WEIRD TALES (in press).

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And some nonfiction:

• Appreciation: Gerald Kersh, "Men Without Bones." THE ED SF PROJECT (November 2005).
• "Doing Tolkien Wrong: Why Fantasy Shouldn't Follow in Tolkien's Footsteps." REFLECTION'S EDGE (March 2005).
• "The Importance of Maps." THE BROADSHEET (September 2006).
• Interview: Elizabeth Bear. SUBTERRANEAN ONLINE (Summer 2007).
• "The Life and Work of Godfrey Winton: A Panel Discussion on One of Science Fiction's Lost Masters" [with John Scalzi and Nick Sagan]. SUBTERRANEAN ONLINE (Summer 2007).
• Review: Joanna Russ, THE COUNTRY YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN. STRANGE HORIZONS (October 2007).
• Review: John Clute, THE DARKENING GARDEN. STRANGE HORIZONS (January 2007).
• "Speaking and Silent Women in UPON APPLETON HOUSE." SEL: STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 42:1 (Winter 2002): 155-71.
• "Still Seeking Chloe and Olivia: How to Write Strong Female Characters." REFLECTION'S EDGE (April 2005).
• "Toward a Praxis of World-Building." CONCUSSED. London: Concussion, 2006. 43-46

And two poems:

• "Night Train: Heading West." THE MAGAZINE OF SPECULATIVE POETRY 7:2 (Spring 2005): 26-27. Reprinted in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR XIX, eds. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin J. Grant. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006. 78-79.
• "The Vampire Smokes a Reflective Cigarette," which appears on this website only.

DISSERTATION

"It harrows me with fear and wonder": Horror and Haunting in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy

Includes chapters on Seneca; Thomas Kyd; Richard III and Titus Andronicus; Hamlet, The Atheist's Tragedy, The Second Maiden's Tragedy, The Changeling, and The Revengers Tragedy, and a coda on Peter Shaffer's play Equus.

Site last updated:
25 October 2007