The Book of the Snowstorm (anthology)

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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

Title Series Author
Previously On… The Multiverse 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 Aristide Twain, Peter Guy, Lena Mactíre, James Wylder
The Book of the Snowstorm Coloth Aristide Twain
Magic Bird of Fire SIGNET Micah K. Spurling
The Dinosaur in the Snow Coloth[nb 1] Thien Valdram
Neither Warrior Nor Thinker Coloth Katherine MacEachern
Jenny Over-There's Wonderful Life Jenny Over-There: The Nine-Two-Five Universe Callum Phillpott
The Claus-Rosen Bridge Auteur, Coloth, The Detective of Ishiok Ostara Gale, Elodie Christian
Still Proceeding SIGNET Charles EP Murphy
Abstract Tales Auteur, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids, Jenny Everywhere[nb 1] L. Alves
The Ties That Bind Starlight Endeavours Lena Mactíre
A Buggly Little Holiday Starlight Ranger James Wylder
The Two Auteurs Auteur Aristide Twain
Trauma and Tinsel Dionus James Hornby
Love & War Aristide Twain
The Goblin, the Witch, and the Kitchen Sink Coloth[nb 1] Ismaeel Clarke
Revelry of the Redacted Ryan Fogarty
The God Who Came For Christmas Aristide Twain
Presents Cwej: The Series[nb 1] Erika de Atayde
The Cathedral of Winter The Castaways of Ishiok Ostara Gale
Just Dropping In Jenny Everywhere Scott Sanford
Conspiracy-1263 and the Christmas Conspiracy The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids Peter Guy
Our Bleak Midwinter Coloth[nb 1] Theta Mandel
The Gift of the Renegades Academy 27 James Wylder
The First Noël Coloth Nate Bumber
Our Finest Gifts We Bring Vignette #1 The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids Aristide Twain
Vignette #2 William Blake's mythology Ismaeel Clarke
Vignette #3 Dionus, Cwej: The Series James Hornby
Vignette #4 The Castaways of Ishiok Ostara Gale
Vignette #5 Starlight Endeavours Lena Mactíre
Vignette #6 The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids Peter Guy
Vignette #7 SIGNET James Hornby
Vignette #8 Coloth[nb 1] Ostara Gale
Vignette #9 The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids L. Alves
Vignette #10 Coloth[nb 1] Aristide Twain
Vignette #11 Out of the Shadows/True Origins James Hornby
Vignette #12 The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids L. Alves
Vignette #13 Cwej: The Series Hunter O'Connell
Vignette #14 Winnie the Pooh Ismaeel Clarke
Vignette #15 The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids Aristide Twain
Vignette #16 The Detective of Ishiok Elodie Christian
Vignette #17 WARSONG James Wylder
Vignette #18 The Magic Island Ismaeel Clarke
Vignette #19 Corsair Queen Aristide Twain
Vignette #20 Nasreddin Ismaeel Clarke
Vignette #21 Auteur
Vignette #22 Small Miracles Aristide Twain, Henry Walker
Vignette #23 N/A Ismaeel Clarke
Vignette #24 10,000 Dawns, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids L. Alves
Vignette #25 10,000 Dawns Aristide Twain

Notes

to be written

External links

Footnotes

  1. 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.