Welcome to Newford....

Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost. Gemmins live in abandoned cars, and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song.

Like Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale and John Crowley's Little Big,, de Lint's Dreams Underfoot is a must-read book not only for fans of urban fantasy but for all who seek magic in everyday life.

Dreams Underfoot contains the following stories:

Uncle Dobbin's Parrot Fair
The Stone Drum
Timeskip
Freewheeling
That Explains Poland
Romano Drom
The Sacred Fire
Winter was Hard
Pity the Monsters
Ghosts of Wind and Shadow
The Conjure Man
Small Deaths
The Moon is Drowning While I Sleep
In the House of My Enemy
But for the Grace Go I
Bridges
Our Lady of the Harbour
Paperjack
Tallulah

"The book you hold is neither a novel nor a simple gathering of short stories. Rather, it is a cycle of urban myths and dreams, of passions and sorrows, romance and farce woven together to create a tapestry of interconnected dramas, interconnected lives -- the kind of magic to be found at the heart of any city, among any tightly knit community of friends. If the imaginary city of Newford is more mythic, more mysterious than the cities you have known, that may be only because you've not seen them through Charles de Lint's eyes, through the twilight dreams he weaves out of language and music. Here he spreads these dreams before us and bids us, in the words of Yeats's poem, to tread softly, for urban magic is fleeting and shy... and its touch is a transformation."
    TERRI WINDLING, CO-EDITOR OF THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY

"Charles de Lint shows that, far from being escapism, contemporary fantasy can be the deep mythic literature of our time."
   THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION

"In de Lint's capable hands, modern fantasy becomes something other than escapism. It becomes folk song, the stuff of urban myth."
   THE PHOENIX GAZETTE