
Bertrand Caillet, born in rural France on a Christmas Eve, grows up with a terrible hunger, and his guardian tries to hide what he is as he grows into the Paris of the 1871 Commune.
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Jake Marlowe, two hundred years old and, he is told, the last werewolf alive, has a month until the hunters come for him, and is tired enough to let them.

A disfigured musical genius living in the cellars of the Paris Opéra falls obsessively in love with a soprano in the chorus, and the managers upstairs keep finding notes from Box Five.

A deformed bell-ringer in medieval Paris falls in love with a beautiful dancer, and the cathedral that shelters him becomes a battleground between compassion and cruelty.

Vivian Gandillon, a sixteen-year-old werewolf whose pack has fled to a Maryland suburb after a fire, falls for a human boy at school.

In an America where lycans are registered and drugged, a hijacking by lycan terrorists sets off a war, and a teenage girl who is secretly one of them has to run.

In a San Francisco room, a vampire tells a young reporter his story, from his making on an eighteenth-century Louisiana plantation to his years with Lestat and the child vampire Claudia.

Ambrosio, the abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is revered for his piety, until a novice in his own house confesses a secret that sets him on the road to ruin.

Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge arrives at her late husband's crumbling country estate, where a locked garret holds a painted wooden figure that looks uncannily like her.

In a house in Dover that resents strangers, a girl with pica who eats chalk grieves her mother, and the house itself takes a turn telling the story of the women it has kept.

A French aristocrat who renounced his title and a dissolute English lawyer who looks just like him love the same woman, and the Terror in Paris brings them both to the guillotine's shadow.

A young man in Paris during the 1848 revolution pursues love, ambition, and political ideals, and watches all three dissolve into mediocrity and regret.

In the summer of 1947 a country doctor is called to Hundreds Hall, the decaying Warwickshire house he once glimpsed as a boy, and becomes entangled with the family whose fortunes and nerves are failing.