Grimoire

About this book

Following the success of the Grimoire released at Dragonsteel Nexus 2024, this second Grimoire published at Emerald City Comic Con 2025 in Seattle, WA, creating a new anthology of stories sure to delight. Read a deadly chess game between a demon and a mage observed by Terry Brooks. Fall in love with a lovelorn girl and her automaton dolls with Cassandra Clare. Discover how a mother keeps safe her son and those around her through the eyes of Robin Hobb. Learn how a war hammer-wielding woman, a stuffed rabbit, and a bipedal hog save a village from itself in a graphic short story by Nate Taylor. Leave Earth for the strangest of intergalactic swap-meets alongside Matt Dinniman. Travel with Merlin and an unruly fairy through Seattle as they hunt a wayward witch witnessed by Shawn Speakman. And more stories. Here is the line-up of contributing authors: Terry Brooks Cassandra Clare* Matt Dinniman* Robin Hobb Seanan McGuire Annalee Newitz* Kat Ogden Shawn Speakman Nate Taylor Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle The * denotes stories previously published but not in print elsewhere. The second Grimoire is sure to enthrall readers just as the first did, with exciting stories of mayhem and magic, boldness and bravery. All told by masters of their craft enabling us the opportunity to be enchanted by opening its cover.

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About the authors

Terry Brooks

8 January 1944

Terence Dean Brooks (born January 8, 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers.

Cassandra Clare

1973

Cassandra Clare was born overseas and spent her early years traveling around the world with her family and several trunks of fantasy books. Cassandra worked for several years as an entertainment journalist for the Hollywood Reporter before turning her attention to fiction. She is the author of City of Bones, the first book in the Mortal Instruments trilogy and a New York Times bestseller. Cassandra lives with her fiance and their two cats in Massachusetts.