The Witch in the Almond Tree and Other Stories

By C.S.E. Cooney

2020

First Published

4.38

Average Rating

100

Number of Pages

3H03M

Audio Length

For the first time collected all together, C. S. E. Cooney releases fiction including the novella "The Witch in the Almond Tree," her erotic fairy tale "Witch, Beast, Saint," and the haunting "Braiding the Ghosts." In "Witch in the Almond Tree," Mar, a newly-minted Witch of Doornwald, returns to the country to find a haunted grove, a mysterious young man, and a mother possessed by an ancient demon,. In "Witch, Beast, Saint," a witch rescues an enchanted beast in the woods, tames and loves him, only to have him taken away by a beautiful young saint. In "Braiding the Ghosts," a young woman must defy her powerful grandmother to free herself and her beloved ghost from captivity. Sexy, ribald, dark, and delicate, these tales will leave you with that "Halloween feeling" all year long.

Avg Rating

4.38

Number of Ratings

5 STARS

56%

4 STARS

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3 STARS

19%

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1 STARS

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Author

C.S.E. Cooney

Author · 18 books

C.S.E. Cooney lives and writes in Queens, whose borders are water. She is an audiobook narrator, the singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, and author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium 2015). Her work includes the novella Desdemona and the Deep (Tor.com 2019), three albums: Alecto! Alecto!, The Headless Bride, and Corbeau Blanc, Corbeau Noir, and a poetry collection: How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes. The latter features her 2011 Rhysling Award-winning “The Sea King’s Second Bride.” Her short fiction can be found in Ellen Datlow’s Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the Sword and Sonnet anthology, edited by Aidan Doyle, Rachael K Jones, E. Catherine Tobler, Mike Allen’s Clockwork Phoenix 3 and 5, Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018), Jonathan Strahan’s The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 12, Lightspeed Magazine, Fireside Magazine, Strange Horizons, Apex, Uncanny Magazine, Black Gate, Papaveria Press, GigaNotoSaurus, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, and elsewhere.