Small Beer Press is an independent publishing house. Recent titles include:

Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales

Winner of the Tiptree Award · Mythopoeic Award finalist

Inventive, playful, and erudite, Cloud & Ashes is a slow whirlwind of language, a button box of words, a mythic Joycean fable that will invite immersion, study, revisitation, and delight.

“Gilman fills your mouth with wincing tastes, your ears with crowcalls, knockings and old, old rhythms, your eyes with beautiful and battered creatures, sly-eyed, luminous or cackling as they twine and involute their stories.”—Margo Lanagan, author of Sea Hearts

Greer Gilman, Cry Murder! in a Small Voice

Shirley Jackson Award finalist

Someone is murdering boy players and Ben Jonson, in the way that only Greer Gilman

could write him—“Fie, poetastery.”—is compelled to investigate.

“What is a story but the dance of words? Greer Gilman’s language is always demanding: even short declarative sentences resonate with layers of meaning. The longer cadences are nimble, tricky on the tongue and in that place in the brain where deliberate allusions float like wisps of smoke on a winter morning or snap as flags in a furious gale.”— Henry Wessells, The Endless Bookshelf

Hal Duncan, The A-Z of the Fantastic City

Illustrated throughout by Eric Schaller

“Leads readers and explorers through twenty-six cities of yore (Yore, while included, is one of the shorter entries), including such familiar and unfamiliar haunts as “Loving, clever, entertaining, and of course . . . quite excellently written.”—Rich Horton, Locus

Sofia Samatar, A Stranger in Olondria

“With characteristic wit, poise, and eloquence, Samatar delivers a story about our vulnerability to language and literature, and the simultaneous experience of power and surrender inherent in the acts of writing and reading.”—Amal El-Mohtar, Tor.com

Susan Stinson, Spider in a Tree

“Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and

radiantly human.”—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

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