Short Stories/Novellas
There are no animals in Prince Rimtheed's kingdom until his sister comes to visit with her big brown dog.
She distrusted him at first, not least because she knew his words were lies. "Call me Grey," he said, but that was not his name. Fear gripped her like a hand.No one but the priestess could look upon the the Ring, the Jewel and the Bone. It was for the bone that this grey stranger had come. He was like a thief, but she realized with a sinking heart that he was armed with as much magic as herself, and maybe more.
"Guirky and dark, these twenty stories explore areas of myth and dream and revivify folk talke...Tanith lee's "FORESTS of THE NIGHT" restores one's faith in fiction as the expression of imagination and original though." -Judy cooke, The Guardian
When her annoying older sister gets a bit part in a movie, fourteen-year-old Jet and her family travel to Ollywood--the movie capital of their earth-like planet--where, on a trip through the city's subways, Jet and her robot dog Otis are transported to a world of rejected fantasy and science fiction movies and must try to find their way back to reality.