Witness a slender neck being circled by rough hands... sharp metal violently stabbing and twisting... the emerging viscous dark red liquid being guzzled greedily, lingering on lips and teeth, followed by the laughter of madness. And that's just Iris and Panda at a wine tasting! "Pass me the bottle, woman! We might as well KILL it..." THE PANDA BOOK OF HORROR will make your fur stand on end. Your blood AND your G&T will run ice cold.

When Edward Malone discovers a peculiar yellow bottle on the banks of an ancient South American river, it takes the combined efforts of Professor Challenger, the Manleigh Halt Irregulars, and Señor 105 to keep the contents safely under wraps. And that's before Miss Iris Wildthyme sticks her nose in... Time for Miss Wildthyme and friends to investigate!

Iris: An adventuress. Iris: An explorer. Iris: Abroad. From the Nile in the thirties to Texas in the seventies, from spirit visions at the Little Big Horn (Casino, Bar and Grill) to a potentially painful colonic in space, Iris and Panda are fresh back from their holidays, knackered, skint, and burned the colour of a Bloody Mary. Thank God they can sit back now, tip the sand out of their Crocs, sort through their photos, and decide which versions of their history stories they like best...

The Big Crunch by Jim Mortimore Frank Reade Jr’s Electric Time Canoe by Steve Mollmann Dance of the Voodoo Valkyries by David McIntee Iris in Dead Man's Gulch by Paul Ebbs Her and Allan by Simon Bucher-Jones Running With Caesars by Geoffrey Hammell Amser Gwyllt by Steffan Alun The Bronze Door by Dale Smith Flash Rogers Conquers the Universe! by Richard Salter The Web of Terror by Iain McLaughlin The Many Lives of Zorro by Richard Wright Fantomville by Nick Campbell The Devil Wears Panda by Cody Quijano-Schell

Femme fatales emerged from shadows/ To watch this creature fair Iris Wildthyme and David Bowie – it's the ideal match, a dream come true! Seriously – what could possibly go wrong?

A fifteenth anniversary collection of Iris Wildthyme stories, featuring all sorts of Irises in all sorts of adventures – and don’t forget Panda!

The Red Planet. Everyone agrees about the colour, at least. The rest is up for grabs. Is Mars a dead and sterile desert, or teeming with life? Are Martians red, green or blue? Nubile and lithe, or monstrously tentacular? Are they long gone, or waiting still? How do they feel about visitors? Will we become the Martians? What kind of a world might we build on Mars? What myths, new or old, might we create there? Oh – and how many different colours can you put in front of “Mars” to make a clever title? These Marses are of course incompatible, contradictory, and in many cases quite impossible. And Iris Wildthyme has visited them all.

The multiverse can be viewed – not terribly accurately, it’s true – as a mirror smashed into an infinite number of fragments. No surprise then that, at one moment in time and in one such fragment, there resided that renowned transtemporal aviatrix, Ms Iris Wildthyme, along with her friend and drinking companion, Clockwork Panda. In a universe filled with brass and copper, where the skies are full of zeppelins, and where thick goggles are, for some reason, very much in fashion, they live their lives in a bright red airship, the number 22 to Putney Aerodrome. These are their adventures… Aaron Starum – The Woman who Sold the Moon Christopher Bryant – Being Ian Charles Douglas – Rattus Erectus Jenna Burtenshaw – Tik Tak, Snik Snak Jon DeCles – Parsley, Sage,Rosemary and Wildthyme John Alice – Panda and the Airship Mark Latham – Petit Fours, Petite Morte Matt Bright – Iris and the Dame Paul Driscoll – The Story Sorters Simon Brett – Timepeace Liesel Schwartz – Another Clockwork Iris