The Book of the Snowstorm was a short story anthology released in 2023 by Arcbeatle Press. Officially an installment of the Coloth series, it also featured stories crossing over with multiple other series both DWU and otherwise, serving to spotlight "the worlds of Arcbeatle Press", all linked together by a framing device by editor Aristide Twain which properly centred on the core Coloth cast.
Publisher's summary
Six months ago, a forest planet was the only world Coloth of the Ulk-Ra had ever known. He had never heard of books, or humans, or Christmas. Then he was killed. Then he was brought back. And then he made some friends. Now he lives somewhere outside Time and Space, where an ancient guild of Bookkeepers tends to an impossible Library whose shelves hold every book ever written.
When a mysterious, unceasing Snowstorm traps five people inside a single room of the Library, his human friends included, Coloth must journey beyond anything he’s ever known to find a way back to them. Meanwhile, snowed in at the Library with a stuffy snail, a mad nun, and a man who gives every appearance of being their worst enemy, Maritsa and Callum must beseech the books themselves for help — but why does the Library seem so determined to tell them stories of hope unceasing and holiday cheer?
The Book of the Snowstorm features over twenty original tales from the worlds of Arcbeatle Press, by L. Alves, Erika de Atayde, Nate Bumber, Elodie Christian, Ismaeel Clarke, Ryan Fogarty, Ostara Gale, Peter Guy, James Hornby, Katherine MacEachern, Lena Mactíre, Theta Mandel, Charles E.P. Murphy, Hunter O'Connell, Callum Phillpott, Scott Sanford, Micah K. Spurling, Aristide Twain, Thien Valdram, Henry Walker and James Wylder.
Stories
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Series |
Author
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| Previously On… The Multiverse
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Coloth, Corsair Queen, The Detective of Ishiok, Dionus, Auteur, Starlight Endeavours, Starlight Ranger SIGNET, Small Miracles, The Castaways of Ishiok, 10,000 Dawns, Lady Aesculapius, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, Jenny Everywhere, The Nine-Two-Five Universe
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Aristide Twain, Peter Guy, Lena Mactíre, James Wylder
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| The Book of the Snowstorm
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Coloth
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Aristide Twain
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| Magic Bird of Fire
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SIGNET
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Micah K. Spurling
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| The Dinosaur in the Snow
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Coloth[nb 1]
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Thien Valdram
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| Neither Warrior Nor Thinker
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Coloth
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Katherine MacEachern
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| Jenny Over-There's Wonderful Life
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Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe
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Callum Phillpott
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| The Claus-Rosen Bridge
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Auteur, Coloth, The Detective of Ishiok
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Ostara Gale, Elodie Christian
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| Still Proceeding
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SIGNET
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Charles EP Murphy
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| Abstract Tales
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Auteur, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, Jenny Everywhere[nb 1]
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L. Alves
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| The Ties That Bind
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Starlight Endeavours
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Lena Mactíre
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| A Buggly Little Holiday
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Starlight Ranger
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James Wylder
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| The Two Auteurs
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Auteur
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Aristide Twain
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| Trauma and Tinsel
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Dionus
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James Hornby
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| Love & War
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Aristide Twain
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| The Goblin, the Witch, and the Kitchen Sink
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Coloth[nb 1]
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Ismaeel Clarke
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| Revelry of the Redacted
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Ryan Fogarty
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| The God Who Came For Christmas
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Aristide Twain
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| Presents
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Cwej: The Series[nb 1]
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Erika de Atayde
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| The Cathedral of Winter
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The Castaways of Ishiok
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Ostara Gale
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| Just Dropping In
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Jenny Everywhere
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Scott Sanford
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| Conspiracy-1263 and the Christmas Conspiracy
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The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
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Peter Guy
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| Our Bleak Midwinter
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Coloth[nb 1]
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Theta Mandel
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| The Gift of the Renegades
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Academy 27
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James Wylder
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| The First Noël
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Coloth
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Nate Bumber
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| Our Finest Gifts We Bring
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Vignette #1
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The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
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Aristide Twain
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| Vignette #2
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William Blake's mythology
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Ismaeel Clarke
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| Vignette #3
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Dionus, Cwej: The Series
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James Hornby
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| Vignette #4
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The Castaways of Ishiok
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Ostara Gale
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| Vignette #5
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Starlight Endeavours
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Lena Mactíre
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| Vignette #6
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The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
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Peter Guy
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| Vignette #7
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SIGNET
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James Hornby
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| Vignette #8
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Coloth[nb 1]
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Ostara Gale
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| Vignette #9
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The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
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L. Alves
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| Vignette #10
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Coloth[nb 1]
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Aristide Twain
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| Vignette #11
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Out of the Shadows/True Origins
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James Hornby
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| Vignette #12
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The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
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L. Alves
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| Vignette #13
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Cwej: The Series
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Hunter O'Connell
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| Vignette #14
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Winnie the Pooh
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Ismaeel Clarke
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| Vignette #15
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The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
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Aristide Twain
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| Vignette #16
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The Detective of Ishiok
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Elodie Christian
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| Vignette #17
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WARSONG
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James Wylder
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| Vignette #18
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The Magic Island
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Ismaeel Clarke
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| Vignette #19
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Corsair Queen
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Aristide Twain
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| Vignette #20
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Nasreddin
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Ismaeel Clarke
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| Vignette #21
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Auteur
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| Vignette #22
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Small Miracles
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Aristide Twain, Henry Walker
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| Vignette #23
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N/A
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Ismaeel Clarke
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| Vignette #24
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10,000 Dawns, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids
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L. Alves
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| Vignette #25
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10,000 Dawns
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Aristide Twain
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Notes
to be written
External links
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Labelled as "A story from the worlds of" its series, rather than the anthology's standard format for stories of a series.
