The Library Beneath the Streets, by Daniel Hale

There are stories that matter.There are stories that shape the world.There are writers who long to tell them.And, disillusioned and bereft, there is a place they go to write them.But the Library Beneath the Streets will not allow just anyone to enter its halls and learn the art.D’shall the story thief thinks he has all he needs to plunder the library for the tales that will make him famous, but there are forces at work deep in the stacks of abandoned manuscripts that will all come together at the command of the ancient and crafty Librarian. Along the way, D’shall will pick up such tales as:• The Snowflake Collector, in which a father collects the messages in snowflakes dropped by his departed child;• The Black Squirrel, a suicide note and a confession by a troubled young student influenced by forces more real yet greater than he;• The Miasmatist, which shows a whole new use for the dead;• More Full of Weeping, in which well-meaning parents imprison their daughter to prevent her from en