The Poison Eaters and Other Stories
The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories, Holly Black’s first collection of her horror fantasy shorts stories, will be in store on February 1st. These stories have been published before in mixed authors anthology like 21 Proms
, The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
, The Eternal Kiss: 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire
, The Restless Dead: Ten Original Stories of the Supernatural, etc.
BSCreview has post the integral of the first short story, “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”. The story is about a girl fighting to not become a vampire after she is bitten. But when she discovers her boyfriend and her friend went to Coldtown to become vampires, she must make a decision. To stay human or not. Click here to read it. You’ll love it!
The collection contains the stories:
- The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
- A Reversal of Fortune (2007)
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf
- The Night Market (2004)
- The Dog King
- Virgin (2008)
- In Vodka Veritas (2007)
- The Coat of Stars (2007)
- Paper Cuts Scissors (2007)
- Going Ironside (2007)
- The Land of Heart’s Desire (a new Modern Faerie Tale story)
- The Poison Eaters (2007)





