These are stories for the hours between midnight and morning ? for anyone who has ever suspected the world is stranger and holds more hidden realms than it appears.

A woman finds her destiny in a shop run by an alien. Shattered glass on a desert floor holds the secret to star-crossed lovers ? and a price yet to be paid. In the Antarctic night, the sea is rising and a vortex begins to open. A face cream sold at a circus erases more than wrinkles. A witch discovers her power to bend light into spells.

A magician's revenge will cost him everything. A child draws visions of the future ? and cannot stop. A door in an ancient forest opens only once. A kingdom built on a lie waits for the one who knows the truth. A river remembers every soul that has crossed it.

The journeys herein will stay with you. These stories will take you somewhere you haven't been before. Not all of them will bring you back the same.