Grimoire: A Grim Oak Press Anthology For Emerald City Comic Con 2025

A wonderful collection of ten short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom will be in attendance at Emerald City Comic Con 2025!

In 2024 Grim Oak Press exhibited at Dragonsteel Nexus, Brandon Sanderson's convention in Salt Lake City, UT, where the award-winning publisher released Grimoire, an anthology containing short stories by attending authors. Robin Hobb, Fonda Lee, Michael J. Sullivan, Jason Denzel and others shared tales of magic, dragons, and superheroes.

Due to reader demand, the second Grimoire will publish at Emerald City Comic Con 2025 in Seattle, WA, creating a new anthology of stories sure to delight. Read a deadly chess game between a demon and a mage observed by Terry Brooks. Fall in love with a lovelorn girl and her automaton dolls with Cassandra Clare. Discover how a mother keeps safe her son and those around her through the eyes of Robin Hobb. Learn how a war hammer-wielding woman, a stuffed rabbit, and a bipedal hog save a village from itself in a graphic short story by Nate Taylor. Leave Earth for the strangest of intergalactic swap-meets alongside Matt Dinniman. Travel with Merlin and an unruly fairy through Seattle as they hunt a wayward witch witnessed by Shawn Speakman. And more stories.

Here is the line-up of contributing authors:

Cassandra Clare- Some Fortunate Day*
Matt Dinniman- Bad Karma at the Interstellar Swap Meet*
Seanan McGuire- Streams of Silver, Streams of Gold
Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle- Gold Talon
Annalee Newitz- The Translator*
Nate Taylor- Side Quest
Robin Hobb- Gears
Terry Brooks- Mage and Demon
Kat Ogden- The Pine Tree Line
Shawn Speakman- The Green Lake Witch

(The * denotes stories previously published but not in print elsewhere.)

The second Grimoire is sure to enthrall readers just as the first did, with exciting stories of mayhem and magic, boldness and bravery. All told by masters of their craft enabling us the opportunity to be enchanted by opening its cover.