Dark Duets is a feast of eerie and mesmerizing horror, thriller, and dark fantasy tales - an ambitious and unique anthology featuring biting and atmospheric original stories from seventeen pairs of acclaimed writers, all collaborating together for the first time, including New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Rachel Caine, Holly Black, Cassandra Clare, Stuart MacBride, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Jonathan Maberry and David Liss. Penned by two authors - and in one case, a trio - who have never worked together before, the stories in this enthralling literary chemistry blend diverse elements and rich themes into mesmerizing and highly combustible tales that delve deep into the shadowy, unexplored realms of the imagination.

Trip trap /Sherrilyn Kenyon , Kevin J. Anderson -- Welded / Tom Piccirilli, T.M. Wright -- Dark witness / Charlaine Harris, Rachel Caine -- Replacing Max / Stuart MacBride, Allan Guthrie -- T. Rhymer / Gregory Frost, Jonathan Maberry -- She, doomed girl / Sarah MacLean, Carrie Ryan-- Hand job / Chelsea Cain, Lidia Yuknavitch -- Hollow choices / Robert Jackson Bennett, David Liss -- Amuse-bouche / Amber Benson, Jeffrey J. Mariotte -- Branches, curving / Tim Lebbon, Michael Marshall Smith -- Renascence / Rhodi Hawk, F. Paul Wilson -- Blind love / Kasey Lansdale, Joe R. Lansdale -- Trapper boy / Holly Newstein, Rick Hautala -- Steward of the blood / Nate Kenyon, James A. Moore -- Calculating route / Michael Koryta, Jeffrey David Greene -- Sisters before misters / Sarah Rees Brennan, Cassandra Clare, Holly Black -- Sins like scarlet / Mark Morris, Rio Youers.