A Cry of Hounds (Paperback or Softback)

Body and Soul, the Hunt Is On!

Hounds, faithful, tenacious, and oft the subject of otherworldly lore. Will they stand beside you or hunt you down? Only time (and the tale) will tell. We present eleven tales inspired by the master of mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, paying tribute to his genius for deduction and his passion for things beyond the ken of mortal men.

In conjunction with the Tell-Tale Steampunk Festival, we bring you stories by:

Christopher D. Abbott * Keith R.A. DeCandido * Aaron Rosenberg * David Lee Summers * Dana Fraedrich * Jessica Lucci * Doc Coleman * James Chambers * Danielle Ackley-McPhail * Ef Deal * John L. French * Bill Bodden

Award-winning author, editor, and publisher Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. In 2014 she joined forces with Mike McPhail and Greg Schauer to form eSpec Books. Her published works include eight novels, Yesterday's Dreams, Tomorrow's Memories, Today's Promise, The Halfling's Court, The Redcaps' Queen, Daire's Devils, The Play of Light, and Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo collections Eternal Wanderings, A Legacy of Stars, Consigned to the Sea, Flash in the Can, Transcendence, The Kindly Ones, Dawns a New Day, The Fox's Fire, Between Darkness and Light, Echoes of the Divine, and the non-fiction writers' guides The Literary Handyman, More Tips from the Handyman, and LH: Build-A-Book Workshop. She is the senior editor of the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, No Longer Dreams, Heroes of the Realm, Clockwork Chaos, Gaslight & Grimm, Grimm Machinations, A Cast of Crows, A Cry of Hounds, Other Aether, The Chaos Clock, Grease Monkeys, Side of Good/Side of Evil, After Punk, and Footprints in the Stars. Her short stories are included in numerous other anthologies and collections. She is a full member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.In addition to her literary acclaim, she crafts and sells original costume horns under the moniker The Hornie Lady Custom Costume Horns, and homemade flavor-infused candied ginger under the brand of Ginger KICK! at literary conventions, on commission, and wholesale.Danielle lives in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail and four extremely spoiled cats.

Keith R.A. DeCandido has also taken inspiration from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work in Holmes-and-Watson short stories for Christopher D. Abbott's Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight series, and in his modern reinterpretations starring Shirley Holmes and Jack Watson in contemporary New York in the anthologies Baker Street Irregulars, Baker Street Irregulars: The Game is Afoot, Multiverse of Mystery, and Eliminate the Impossible. In his three decades as a fiction writer he has penned more than 60 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than 50 comic books. His work ranges from media tie-in tales in more than 30 different licensed universes from Alien to Zorro to fiction in his self-created milieus, such as the long-running "Precinct" series of epic fantasy police procedurals for eSpec Books. Recent and upcoming work includes the upcoming debut of his new fantasy series Supernatural Crimes Unit, the novels Phoenix Precinct and Feat of Clay (the most recent books in two other fantasy series), the Resident Evil graphic novel Infinite Darkness: The Beginning, the short-story collection Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet, the comic book adaptation of his serial killer novel Animal (in collaboration with co-author Dr. Munish K. Batra and artist J.K. Woodward), and short fiction in multiple issues of Star Trek Explorer, in the anthology series Phenomenons and Thrilling Adventure Yarns, and in the anthologies Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, Joe Ledger: Unbreakable, and The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny, as well as in two anthologies he also co-edited, Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry) and The Four of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms).Keith is also a prolific popular-culture prognosticator, with his reviews and think-pieces appearing regularly on the award-winning web site Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com), as well as in various and sundry essay collections and magazines.In addition to all that, Keith is a martial artist (a fourth-degree black belt in karate), a musician (currently percussionist for the parody band Boogie Knights), and an editor of more than thirty-five years' standing (though he usually does it sitting down). Find out less at his hilariously primitive web site at DeCandido.net.

Michelle D. Sonnier writes dark urban fantasy, steampunk, and anything else that lets her combine the weird and the fantastic in unexpected ways. She even writes horror, although it took her a long time to admit that since she prefers the existential scare over blood and gore. She is the author of The Clockwork Witch, The Clockwork Solution, and Death's Embrace and has published short stories in a variety of print and online venues. You can find her on Facebook (Michelle D. Sonnier, The Author). She lives in Maryland with her husband, son, and a variable number of cats.