They are known to every age and every culture around the world: mysterious, mythic lovers who are irresistible. Uncontrollable. Who compel us beyond the boundaries of love and sex, into the forbidden zone of our deepest, often unacknowledged desires. Now they are singing their seductive siren's song in this collection of magical obsessional erotica by today's most daring writers.

Contents:

• Introduction by Terri Windling
• My Lady of the Hearth [Magravandias Chronicles] by Storm Constantine
• The Faerie Cony-catcher by Delia Sherman
• Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates
• Wolfed by Tanith Lee
• Ashes on Her Lips by Edward Bryant
• Mirrors by Garry Kilworth
• Midnight Express by Michael Swanwick
• No Human Hands to Touch by Elizabeth E. Wein
• Attachments by Pat Murphy
• In the Season of Rains by Ellen Steiber
• Bird Count by Jane Yolen
• A Wife of Acorn, Leaf, and Rain by Dave Smeds
• Tastings by Neil Gaiman
• The Sweet of Bitter Bark and Burning Clove by Doris Egan
• Heat by Melissa Lee Shaw
• The Eye of the Storm by Kelley Eskridge
• O for a Fiery Gloom and Thee by Brian Stableford
• The Light That Passes Through You by Conrad Williams
• Private Words by Mark W. Tiedemann
• The House of Nine Doors by Ellen Kushner
• Persephone or, Why the Winters Seem to Be Getting Longer by Wendy Froud
• Taking Loup by Bruce Glassco

Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling