Holly Black 
The Poison Eaters 
and Other Stories

Pick your poison: Vampires, devils, werewolves, faeries, or . . . ? Find them all here in Holly Black’s amazing first collection.


In her debut collection,
New York Times best-selling author Holly Black returns to the world of Tithe in two darkly exquisite new tales. Then Black takes readers on a tour of a faerie market and introduces a girl poisonous to the touch and another who challenges the devil to a competitive eating match. Some of these stories have been published in anthologies such as
21 Proms, The Faery Reel, and
The Restless Dead, and many have been reprinted in many “Best of ” anthologies.


The Poison Eaters is Holly Black’s much-anticipated first collection, and her ability to stare into the void—and to find humanity and humor there—will speak to young adult and adult readers alike.


A Junior Library Guild Pick. Illustrated by Theo Black.


Holly Black is the author of
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults) and two related novels,
Valiant (Norton Award winner) and
New York Times bestseller
Ironside. Her latest novel,
Black Heart is the third of a new series, The Curseworkers. She and Tony Di Terlizzi created the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles. Holly lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Theo, in a house with a secret library.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

A Reversal of Fortune

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The Night Market

The Dog King

Virgin

In Vodka Veritas

The Coat of Stars

Paper Cuts Scissors

Going Ironside

The Land of Heart’s Desire

The Poison Eaters

Über den Autor

Holly Black’s first novel
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, was published in 2002 by Simon & Schuster.
Tithe received starred reviews from
Publishers Weekly and
Kirkus Reviews, and was included in the American Library Association’s Best Books for Young Adults. Holly has since written two other books in the same universe,
Valiant and a sequel to
Tithe, New York Times bestseller
Ironside.
Valiant was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Award and received the Andre Norton Award.

Holly collaborated with her long-time friend, Caldecott Award-winning artist, Tony Di Terlizzi, to create the bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles which include eight novels as well as the lavishly illustrated
Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to The Fantastical World Around You, The Notebook for Fantastical Observations, and
Care and Feeding of Sprites. The Chronicles have been translated into 32 languages and been into adapted into a major motion picture.

Holly has also been a frequent contributor to anthologies, and has co-edited three:
Geektastic (with Cecil Castellucci),
Zombies vs. Unicorns (with Justine Larbalestier), and
Bordertown (with Ellen Kushner).

She is working on
Black Heart, the third novel in The Curse Workers series—about capers, curse magic, and memory—which follows
White Cat and
Red Glove.

Holly lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Theo, in a house with a secret library.