Games Creatures Play
by Toni L. P. Kelner, Charlaine Harris

Includes a brand-new story featuring Sookie Stackhouse and Manfred Bernardo

Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes, where striking out might strike you dead. Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner are your announcers for this all-new story collection of the most peculiar plays ever made...

Sports fans live and die by their teams’ successes and failures—though not literally. But these fourteen authors have written spirited—in more ways than one—new tales of killer competitions that would make even the most die-hard players ask to be benched.

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s “The Blue Hereafter,” Manfred Bernardo learns about softball from a certain blond barmaid in Louisiana.

Life-and-death stakes make the competition get serious in New York Times bestseller William Kent Krueger’s “Hide and Seek.”

New York Times bestselling author Mercedes Lackey’s “False Knight on the Road” features a high-stakes drag race on a foggy mountain road between a clever young bootlegger and a mysterious stranger.

In New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman’s “Ice,” a young girl learns the true story behind a bit of neighborhood folklore.

New York Times bestseller Seanan McGuire presents “Jammed,” in which a chimera loose during the Roller Derby makes it anyone’s guess as to who will still be skating by the time the buzzer sounds.

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson’s “Dreamer,” a game of cops and robbers is a new challenge when the players are able to switch bodies at will.

And New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler follows ghost stomper Hunter Hunterson as he investigates a haunted, never-ending baseball game in “The Case of the Haunted Safeway.”

These and eight more supernatural sporting stories are guaranteed to have you rooting for the home team...or else...

Other Books by Toni L. P. Kelner

Crimes by Moonlight
Mysteries from the Dark Side

Blast from the Past
A Where Are They Now? Mystery #3

Crimes by Moonlight
Mysteries from the Dark Side

Who Killed the Pinup Queen?
A "Where Are They Now?" Mystery #2

Curse of the Kissing Cousins
A "Where Are They Now?" Mystery #2

Wed And Buried

Toni L. P. Kelner's Bio

Fact Sheet

Home Town
Born in Pensacola, FL
Grew up in Gulf Breeze, FL
& Charlotte, NC
Currently living in Malden, MA

Day Job
Former technical writer
Currently full time writer

Married
To Stephen Paul Kelner, Jr.

Children
Two daughters: Maggie and Valerie

Organizations
American Crime Writers League
Femmes Fatales
Mystery Writers of America
Sisters in Crime

Awards

Anthony Award Nominee for Best Short Story for "How Stella Got Her Grave Back"

Agatha Award Winner and Anthony Award Nominee for Best Short Story for "Sleeping With the Plush"

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Career Achievement Award Winner for Mystery Series in 2002

Anthony and Macavity Award Nominee for Best Short Story for "Bible Belt"

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Career Achievement Award Nominee for Mystery Series in 2001

Romantic Times BOOKreviews Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee for Death of a Damn Yankee

Agatha Award Nominee for Best Short Story for "The Death of Erik the Redneck"