Waiting on Wednesday: Death's Excellent Vacation

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event I am joining, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read selection is:
Death’s Excellent Vacation
Fantasy R & R Anthology
Edited By Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner
Releases August 3, 2010

New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Katie MacAlister, Jeaniene Frost-plus Lilith Saintcrow, Jeff Abbott, and more-send postcards from the edge of the paranormal world to fans who devoured Wolfsbane and Mistletoe and Many Bloody Returns.
With an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story and twelve other original tales, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner bring together a stellar collection of tour guides who offer vacations that are frightening, funny, and touching for the fanged, the furry, the demonic, and the grotesque. Learn why it really can be an endless summer-for immortals.

-Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse short story
-Katie MacAlister
'The Perils of Effrijim' featuring the demon Jim from the Dragon books.
-Jeaniene Frost
“One For the Money” A Cat and Bones Novella which is set after the events of Destined For an Early Grave in the Night Huntress series so #4.5 in the series.
-Lilith Saintcrow
“The Heart is Always Right” deals with a gargolye who wants to visit Fiji.
-A. Lee Martinez’s “The Innsmouth Nook”
-Jeff Abbott
-L.A. Banks
-Christoper Golden “Thin Walls”
It starts with a lonely widower in a hotel room, forced to listen to the raucous sex going on in the room next door, and gets unsettling from there.
-Chris Grabenstein
“The Demon in the Dunes” Charlaine and Toni asked their cadre of contributors to play travel agent for supernatural creatures and send them on fictional vacations. So, I sent my demon down the Jersey Shore!
Here is a snippet on his blog
-Sharan Newman
Her story deals with a group of American leprechauns at a family reunion in Ireland.
-Sarah Smith
“The Boys Go Fishing” is about Superman and the Eight Immortals.
-Daniel Stashower