Volume two of the magical short story collection by Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner Tanith Lee author of The Silver Metal Lover and The Birthgrave. Gothic poetess comic young-adult author robust adventure-fantasy novelist: Tanith Lee has more writing personas than Sybil. But in her short fiction all these aspects come gloriously together. Such stories as 'Antonius Bequeathed' or 'The Persecution Machine ' with their death-defying mixture of prose poetry genre trope reversals and ominous wit could be written by no one else. - WEIRD TALES magazine Stories include: The Woman in Scarlet One For Sorrow Unlocking the Golden Cage Antonius Bequeathed Doll Skulls Queens in Crimson Flower Water The Persecution Machine All the Birds of Hell Vermilia.