The fire when it comes Book

This excellent short story collection is filled with odd little gems that have sad edges. Wonderful speculative fiction includes the title novella, which was a Hugo and Nebula nominee and winner of the World Fantasy award for 1982 - it's a breathtakingly sad ghost story, well, sort of...

Also includes:

"Influencing the Hell Out of Time and Teresa Golowitz", 1982
' nifty time warp faustian stuff, with pathos
"The Lady of Finnigan's Hearth", 1977
' legendary Isolde gets another chance at life, sentimental but lovely
"The Last Rainbow", 1978
' loopy medieval doings with faeries and barons and a mad young woman
"The Little Things", 1981
' sharply incised "crime in the big city", dark and satisfyingly creepy
"The Second Day of Genius", 1984
' a gastronome goes berserk
"Stroke of Mercy", 1981
' odd time travel tale, with a gently sad bite
"Unsigned Original", 1975
' twisted tale of authorship and borrowed ideas
"Up Yours, Frederico", 1981
' what happens when the bulls are smarter than the matadors