Welcome to the wide world of paranormal pastimes where striking out might strike you dead Editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L P Kelner are your announcers for this all-new story collection of the most peculiar plays ever madexSports fans live and die by their teamsx successes and failuresxthough not literally But these fourteen authors have written spiritedxin more ways than onexnew tales of killer competitions that would make even the most die-hard players ask to be benchedIn New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harrisxs xCThe Blue HereafterxD Manfred Bernardo learns about softball from a certain blond barmaid in LouisianaLife-and-death stakes make the competition get serious in New York Times bestseller William Kent Kruegerxs xCHide and SeekxDNew York Times bestselling author Mercedes Lackeyxs xCFalse Knight on the RoadxD features a high-stakes drag race on a foggy mountain road between a clever young bootlegger and a mysterious strangerIn New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippmanxs xCIcexD a young girl learns the true story behind a bit of neighborhood folkloreNew York Times bestseller Seanan McGuire presents xCJammedxD in which a chimera loose during the Roller Derby makes it anyonexs guess as to who will still be skating by the time the buzzer soundsIn New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sandersonxs xCDreamerxD a game of cops and robbers is a new challenge when the players are able to switch bodies at willAnd New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler follows ghost stomper Hunter Hunterson as he investigates a haunted never-ending baseball game in xCThe Case of the Haunted SafewayxDThese and eight more supernatural sporting stories are guaranteed to have you rooting for the home teamxor elsex.
