"The Steel Remains" by Richard K. Morgan

As a huge fan of Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series of hard sci-fi novels, I was tremendously excited when I saw our local library also had "The Steel Remains," a Morgan foray into high fantasy. Needless to say, I was not disappointed.

Let me first say that "The Steel Remains" is absolutely not for the faint of heart. It's exceptionally well-crafted in terms of shock value, containing graphic descriptions of gay sex, ultra-violence, and some truly creative swearing. However, none of this is particularly out of place when one considers Morgan's basic premise: what happens to heroes? It's ten years after the climactic battle of a Lord-of-the-Rings style war between races, and the heroes of that battle are now dissatisfied, down-on-their-luck ordinary joes whom few people even recognize any more, resigned to living the flawed world that they helped to build.

There's a good story and a lot of conflict in "The Steel Remains" but that's not the reason to read the novel. The real draw is Morgan's exquisitely crafted feeling of weariness, imparted through careful prose and dialogue and internal monologue, that is so grindingly depressing that it's hard to read except in small chunks. It's a face-paced and gripping tale, but whatever you do, don't expect it to cheer you up.

"Maledicte" by Lane Robbins

First and foremost, I have to say that the cover for "Maladicte" by Lane Robbins-- a Venetian mask entirely surrounded by black feathers-- is one of the most nicely designed covers on a paperback I've seen in years.

Unfortunately, the story itself doesn't quite live up to the stylish art. The plot itself is simple enough: a young orphan, Miranda, has her best friend, Janus, snatched from her by the nobles of a dissolute, neo-Renaissance court. In order to take her revenge on the man who stole him, she makes a pact with the (supposedly dead) goddess of revenge, Black-Winged Ani, and enters the courts as the hot-headed heir of the foreign noble Baron Vonetti. Masquerading as a boy, her entire life revolves around her plots to regain her former friend and kill the man who took him from her.

I really expected a light, graceful and extremely carefully plotted tale of delicious intrigue. Instead, "Maledicte" is full of violence and badly-written characters-- so much so that the main character quickly becomes anathema to the reader. The dialogue is forced and strangely disjointed, sounding as though large chunks are missing, and there isn't really an enjoyable character in the whole novel. The courts are not interesting or well-described enough to hold one's attention, and the whole story comes to a crashingly unsatisfying ending. In short, this one had great potential but fell so far short of the mark I really can't recommend it.

My BPAL Wishlist

This was far too long to go on the forums, so:

*everything is in alphabetical order within each scent category.  All subseries are listed under the appropriate heading (for instance, "Literary Vampires"  under "Halloweenie".)

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General Catalogue:

A Picnic in Arkham: Cthulhu, Night-Gaunt, Nyarlathotep, The Deep Ones, Y’ha-nthlei

Ars Amatoria: Aperotos Eros, Bathsheba, Bien Loin D’Ici, Carnal, Hunger, L’Ecole des Filles, La Belle au Bois Dormant, La Petite Mort, Le Lethe, Le Serpent Qui Danse, Libertine, Lilium Inter Spinas, Lorelei, Lucy’s Kiss, Maiden, Muse, Nefertiti, Ravenous, Salome,  Satyr, Spellbound, The Temptation, To a Woman, Vicomte de Valmont, Wanton, Whoso List to Hunt

Ars Draconis: Dragon’s Claw, Dragon’s Heart, Dragon’s Hide, Dragon’s Musk, Dragon’s Reverie, Ladon

Ars Moriendi: Darkness, Deep in Earth, Epitaph, Haunted, House of Nightf, Les Fleurs du Mal, Sheol, Thanatopsis, The Ghost, The Phantom Wooer, The Reaper and the Flowers, Wings of Azrael

Bewitching Brews: Antique Lace, Aureus, Belle Epoque, Blood Pearl, Chimera, Chuparosa, Dana O’Shee, Event Horizon, Fae, Follow Me Boy,  Grand Guignol, Grog, High John the Conquerer, Horn of Plenty,  Incantation, Kubla Khan, L’Examen de Minuit, Leanan Sidhe, Lurid, Magus, Mary Read, Meliai, Morgause, Ouija, Plunder, Séance, Tavern of Hell, The Coiled Serpent, The Harlot’s House, The Jersey Devil, The Raven, Tushnamatay, Twenty-One, Ulalume, Umbra, Veil, Wolf’s Heart

Diabolus: A Coutenance Forboding Evil, Black Annis, Blood Countess, Bloodlust, Bluebeard, Ekhidna, Goblin, Kuang Shi, Kumiho, Maenad, Malice, Pain, Phantom, Phobos,  Serpent’s Kiss, Villain, Wicked

Doc Constantine’s Pharmacopeia: Bruised Violet Compound, Nostrum Remedium, Stimulating Sassafras Strengthener

Excolo: Aizen-Myoo, Czernobog, Ehecatl, Eurphrosyne, Hades, Hecate, Iambe, Kurukulla, Lilith, Mania, Nemesis, Obatala, Ochosi, Odin, Oya, Peitho, Pele, Sacred Whore of Babylon, Skuld, Thalia, Tisiphone, Verdandi, Xiuhtecuhtli, Yemaya

Illyria: Cordelia, Katharina, Lady Macbeth, Lear, Lysander, Ophelia, Queen Gertrude, Robin Goodfellow, Rosalind, The Apothecary, Titus Andronicus, Yorick

Mad Tea Party: Against Idleness and Mischief, Alice’s Evidence, Brusque Violet, Croquet, High-Strung Daisies, How Doth the Little Crocodile, Imperious Tiger-Lily, Rocking-Horse-Fly, Snooty Rose, The Caterpillar, The Dormouse,  The Queen of Hearts, The Sluggard, ‘Tis the Voice of the Lobster, Tweedledee, Tweedledum,  Twinkle Twinkle Little Bat, Two Five & Seven

Marchen: Baba Yaga, Belle Vinu, Egle, Fire for Thy Stepmother’s Daughters, Godfather Death, Grief, Old Demons of the First Class, Rapunzel, Roses Pearls and Diamonds, Rumpelstilzchen, The Chicken-Legged Hut, The Grave-Pig, The Lights of Men’s Lives, The Little Wooden Doll, The Miller’s Daughter, The Night-Raven, The Old Goblin, The Rose, The Sea Foams Milk, The Witch’s Repast, Thorns, Thy Godfather’s Present, Vasilissa, Veritas

Phoenix Steamworks and Research Facility: Behemoth, Phoenix Steamworks, Polyphemus, The Obsidian Widow

Rappacini’s Garden: Baneberry,  Black Hellebore Honey, Black Hellebore, Black Lily, Black Rose, Blood Lotus, Bohun Upas, Chokecherry Honey, Daphne Honey, Deadly Nightshade Honey, Destroying Angel, Hemlock Honey, Horse Chestnut Honey, Laurel Honey, Love-In-Idleness, Mandrake, Oleander Honey, Opium Poppy, Redoul Honey, Squirting Cucumber, The Apple of Sodom, The Lotus Tree, The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, The Zieba Tree, Tobacco Honey, Wolfsbane, Ya-Te-Vo, Yew-Trees

RPG: Bard, Chaotic, Cleric, Druid, Dwarven Ale, Elf, Evil, Gnome, Good, Half-Elf, Lawful, Mage, Thieves' Rosin, Vial of Holy Water

Sin and Salvation: Anathema, Envy, Hymn, Les Infortunes de la Vertu, Oblivion, Paramatman, Penitence, Pride, Roadhouse, Seraphim, Sloth, The Bow & Crown of Conquest, The Scales of Deprivation

Wanderlust: 51, Ameles Potamos, Amsterdam, Cockaigne, Delphi, El Dorado, Hollywood Babylon, Jezirat Al Tennyn, Kumari Kandam, London, Mag Mell, Manila, Moscow, New Orleans, Ogygia, Pontarlier, Port Royal, Rome, Sybaris,  Tenochtitlan, The Hamptons, The Isles of Demons, Tintagel, Uruk, Versailles, Windward Passage

Unimpables:

Boom!Studios:Bette Noir, Kaidan, Yurei

Dawn: Cernunnos, Maiden, Mother, Mourning Victory, Priestess

Grendel: Avenger, Harlequin

Gris Grimly: Hideous Heart
Hellboy: Abe Sapien, Trevor Bruttenholm
Hero Initiative: Sachs

Labyrinth: 13 Hours, Fairy Bites, Goblin Cider

Neil Gaiman:Agnes Nutter, Door, Fairy Wine, Lamia, Miss Lupescu, Mr. Ibis, Mr. Jacquel, Night’s Bridge, The Ifrit, The Floating Market,The Norns’ Farmhouse, The Owens’ Tomb, The Potter’s Field, The Stormhold, The Velvets, The Witch Queen, Tristan, Spider, Vampire Tarot: The Fool, Vampire Tarot: The Lovers, Vampire Tarot: The Priestess, Victoria, War, Wensleydale

Pandora: Alcie, Pandy

Panacea: Bitch, Detox, Grr, Lustration, Moxie, Oof, Quietude, Safari, Seduction, Succor, Ugh
ParaNorman: Bub, Blithe Hollow, Norman, Salma

Somnium: Baku, Nanshe, Somnus, Temple of Dreams

The District: Countess Willie, Crib Girls, Emma, Josie

The Last Unicorn:Arachne of Lydia, Hagsgate, King Haggard, Magic Do as You Will, Molly Grue, Mommy Fortuna, Prince Lir, The Amorous Tree, The Butterfly, The Last Unicorn, The Midnight Carnival, Touched Twice, Witch-Cursed Castle

Vampires Don’t Sleep Alone: Bocal de Sang, Cicuta, Interfector, Misericordia, Philologus, Silenti, Tombeur, Transeo, Vespillo, VILF
Witchblade: The Curator, The Magdalen, Witchblade

Discontinued Scents: 
The Salon: Bat, Carceri d'Invenzione, Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Those Condemned to Death, Cloister Graveyard in the Snow, Death of the Grave Digger, Judith Victorious, Kiyohime Changes from a Serpent, Lot and His Daughters, Mad Meg, Philosopher in Meditation, Spirit of the Komachi Cherry Tree, Sunflower, Sunrise with Sea Monsters, The Great He-Goat, The Isle of the Dead, The Lantern Ghost of Oiwa, The Penitent Magdalen, The Smiling Spider, Three Brides, Three Gorgons

General Discontinued: All in the Golden Afternoon, Allegory, Arachne, Banshee, Bat-Woman, Bat's Blood, Black Widow, Bruja, Cabaret, Calliope, Chypre, Circe, Clio, Entropy, Ephemera, Erato, Ether, Glitter, Gluttony, Goneril, Hakkotsu, Hi'iaka, I Died for Beauty, Jester, Kephra, Kostnice, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Lex Talionis, Ligeia, Magdalene, March Hare, Masabakes, Melancholia, Midnight, Moon Rose, Moonshine and Mist, Morella, Mystery, Noir, Pais de la Canela, Polyhymnia, Pulse Points, Ra, Rage, Saint-Germain, Serpents with Glittering Eyes and Forky Tongues, Shroud, Silence, Succubus, Terpsichore, The Coil, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun, The High Priest Not to Be Described, The Little Sparrow, The Mock Turtle's Lessons, The Music of Erich Zahn, The Unicorn, Tum, Unseelie, Urania, Utrennyaya, Venom, Verchernyaya, Violet Ray, Yerevan, Yuki-Onna

Gaiman Discontinued: Fairy Market, Lady on the Grey, The Macabray

Atomic Luau Lounge: Aremata-Popoa, Blue Fire, Golden Wave, Mahana, Pahoehoe, Polynesian Pop, Rangoon Riptide, Red Tide, Screeching Parrot

Celestials: Aquarius, Aries, Cancer, Capricorn, Gemini, Jupiter, Leo, Libra, Luna, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Pisces, Pluto, Sagittarius, Saturn, Scorpio, Taurus, Uranus, Venus, Virgo

Sephiroth: A'arab Zaraq, Binah, Chesed, Chokmah, Gamaliel, Geburah, Gha'agsheblah, Ghagiel, Golachab, Hod, Kether, Malkuth, Nahemoth, Netzach, Samael, Sathariel, Thagirion, Thaumiel, Tiphareth, Yesod

Single Notes: Almost any-- try me!

Tarot Oils: Almost any-- try me!   

LEs:

General LEs:
Pickman Gallery: An Incubus Leaving Two Sleeping Women, Buen Viage, Conical Beast, Dante and Virgil on the Ice of Kocythos, Death Embraces a Young Maiden, Die Sundë Vom Tod Verfolgt, Expressive Head, Fallen Angels in Hell, Hothrun Dath, La Mort,  Lemurian Ghost, Michael Casts Out All of the Fallen Angels, Monastery in the Mountains, Muse of the Night, Nadie Se Conoce, Pandemonium, Post-Mortem Laureatus, Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion, Satan Talks to Sin and Death, Sentimental Initiation, The Changeling, The Garden of Death, The Mandrake Charm, The Night Hag Visiting the Lapland Witches, The Seekim, The Soul of La Traviata, The Two-Tailed Sogg, The Wiley Grasser, The Zoom, Three Swords, Undine Comes Into the House of the Fishermen, Waves of Mist

The Velvets: Velvet Bandito, Velvet Clown, Velvet Cthulhu, Velvet Dogs Playing Poker, Velvet Nudie, Velvet Panther, Velvet Tiger 

Metamorphosis: Ae. Aegypti, Ae. Albopictus, Atlas, Bernardino Dotted Blue, Blue Morpho, Ceanothus Silkmoth, Common Jezebel, Goliath Birdwing, Great Grey Witch, Gypsy, Io, Juniper Hairstreak, Luna, Monarch, Mourning Cloak, Paper Kite, Passion Butterfly, Purple Dotted Swallowtail, Pussy, Sphaeromachia Gaumeri, Spicebush Swallowtail, Two-Barred Flasher, White Peacock, Zebra Heliconian 
The Elementals: Gnome, Undine, Salamander, Sylph

The Bards of Ireland: Eanach Dhuin, Strings in the Earth and Air, The Dole of the King’s Daughter, The Fairies, The Harp of Cnoc l’Chosgair, The Host of the Air, The Little Bird, The Traveller
Forum Only: Ace of Hearts, Agape, F5, Frederic, Irrelevant and Disturbing Surreal Crawdad Dream, King of Diamonds, King of Spades, Lady Lilith, Lilith Victoria, Lilith vs. The Giant Crab, Queen of Clubs, Queen of Diamonds, Queen of Spades, The Gladdener of All Hearts, Werepuppy, WILF

Paduan Killer Bees: Doll’s Eye Infused Honey, Jerusalem Cherry Infused Honey, Paduan Killer Swarm, Yew Berry Infused Honey

The Phoenixes: Copper Phoenix, Earth Phoenix, Fire Phoenix,  Gold Phoenix, Green Phoenix, Purple Phoenix, Quicksilver Phoenix, Silver Phoenix, The Phoenix at Dawn, The Phoenix at Dusk, The Phoenix at Midnight, The Phoenix in Autumn, The Phoenix in Spring, The Phoenix in Summer, The Phoenix in Winter, White Phoenix, Wood Phoenix

General LEs: #occupywallstreet, April Fool, Bad Luck Woman Blues, Beatrice, Boo Bam, Brood XIX, Capricorn 2007, Democrat, E Pluribus Unum, Et Lux Fruit, Formula 54, Gemini 2007, GOP, Graveyard Dirt, Green Party, Hanami, Havisham, Hellhound on My Trail, Ides of March 2010, Independent, June Gloom, La Mano Del Destino, Labores Solis, Lady Luck Blues, Lawn Gnome, Leo 2007, Libertarian, Liberty, Litha 2006, Litha 2009, Loi Krathong, Love in the Asylum, Lughnasadh, Mabon 2004, Marae, Midnight Kiss, Mi-Go Brain Canister, Miss Addie, Moai, Mort de Caesar, Opuhi, Ostara, Pa-Pow, Parentalia, Penumbra, Pisces 2008, Poisson d’Avril, Sagittarius 2007, Spinning Multicolored Metallic Pinwheel, St. John’s Eve, Tabella, Taurus 2007, Te Po, The Aurora Spaceship Takes a Dive, The Gibbous Moon, The Idea of March, The Living Flame, The Montauk Project, The Sportive Sun, Tiki King, Tiki Queen, Traipsing Through the Crop Circles, Tupapau, Upa Upa, Vampire Tears, Virgo 2007, Waraizome, Water Dragon, Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse

Iteru: Hatmeihit, Nonae Caprotina, Season of the Emergence, Season of the Inundation, The Festival of Anuket

Pon Poko Pon No Pon: Jibiki Danuki, Tanuki No Amiuchi, Tanuki No Doke Daruma,Tanuki No Hikifune, Tanuki No Kanban,Tanuki No Orai, Tanuki No Senkimochi,Tanuki No Yudachi

Summer's End: Shadowless Like Silence, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, The Last Rose of Summer, Under the Harvest Moon
Oblation: Cerberus, Corazon, Oisin, Thunderbird

The Salon LEs: Donna con Ventaglio, Hygeia, Ii No Hayata Kills the Nue at the Imperial Palace, Kusunoki Tamonmaru Masatsura Surprising a Fox Ghost, Lord Teishin with a Demon Behind a Screen, Minamoto No Yorimitsu Cuts at the Earth Spider, One to Tie Two to Win, Pallas Athene, Pinched with Four Aces, Riding the Goat, Stranger in Camp, The Triumph of Death, Tree of Life

The Land of Dreams: Dream, Nightmare, Sleep, Wake

13s: June 2008, January 2012, April 2012 
A Demon in My View: Alone, Annabel Lee, Dreamland, Evening Star, Lenore, Spirits of the Dead, The City in the Sea, The Sleeper
Maelstrom: Berenice, Fortunato, Imp of the Perverse, Montresor, The Masque, The Pit & The Pendulum, The Premature Burial, Usher
 

Carnivals: 

Carnival Noir: Fire Eater, Freak Show, Gypsy Queen, House of Mirrors, Kunstkammer, Medicine Show, Midway

Carnival Diabolique: Aeronwen, Agrat-Bat-Mahlaht, Anaconda, Antonino The Carny Talker, Ashlultum, Australian Copperhead, Banded Sea Snake, Cottonmouth, Cytherea, Dionysia, Eisheth Zenunim, Eshe A Vision of Life-in-Death, Faeu Boulanger, Faith, Faiza the Black Mamba, Gennivre L'Artiste du Diable, Green Tree Viper, Gwyneth, Hope, King Cobra, L'Heure Verte, Licwiglunga, Marcilla, Marianne, Meskhenet the Vulture Maiden, Parthenope, Pickled Imp, Priala the Human Phoenix, Screaming Mandragora, Sir Hugh Ockham's Winding Sheet, Stormclouds Over the Midway, Thalassa the Galapagos Mermaid, The Blood Garden, The Chapel, The Contract of Theophilus of Adana, The Grindhouse, The Maltese Cross of Sanctus Germanus, The Organ Grinder, The Parliament of Tobacco, Theodosius The Legerdemain, Wulric the Wolfman
 
Lunacies: 

General: Allison Gross, Bakeneko, Bitter Moon, Black Butterfly Moon, Blackbear Moon, Blauer Mond, Blood Moon 2008, Blood Moon 2010, Blood Moon 2011, Blue Moon 2007, Blue Moon 2009: Brian, Blue Moon 2012, Candles Moon, Chrysanthemum  Moon, Dragon Moon, Dragon Moon 2008, Dyan Moon, Egg Moon, Falling Leaf Moon, Flower Moon 2009, Harvest Moon 2005, Harvest Moon 2006, Harvest Moon 2008, Harvest Moon 2010, Harvest Moon 2011, Harvest Moon 2012, Hay Moon, Honey Moon, Hungry Ghost Moon, Hungry Ghost Moon 2006, Hunter Moon 2007, Ivanushka, Joyful Moon, Long Night Moon, Lotus Moon 2006, Lotus Moon 2012, Luna Negra, Lycaon, Mead Moon, Moon of Horses, Moon of Small Spirits, Oborot, Raven Moon, Red Moon 2004, Red Moon 2007, Rose Moon, Schwarzer Mond, Singing Moon 2007, Singing Moon 2012, Sleepy Moon, Smoky Moon 2012, Strawberry Moon, Strawberry Moon 2009, Sugar Moon 2008, Tamamo-No-Mae, Wolf Moon 2004, Wolf Moon 2007, Wolf Moon 2011, Worm Moon 2008

Lupercalia:

General: Aatos Polemio, Abhisarika, An Appraisal of Sensual Pleasure in the Four Seasons, An Omen of Good Fortune, Anactoria, Andreiphontes, Antheia, Apatouros, Apatrophia, Areia, Autumn Moon of the Mirror Stand, Beanman and Beanwoman Prepare to Attack the Vagina, Before the Snowy Window, Bijoux Y’ha-nthlei, Biwa, Blooming Rose, Blossoms in Springtime, Body Remember, Burning Vulva, Calligraphy Practice, Chintamani-Dhupa, Copulating Mice, Couple Engaged in Lovemaking, Dark Chocolate with Tulsi Tumeric and White Ginger, Dia, Dolce Stil Nuovo, Ebisu Making Love as Two Octopuses Look On, Ecstatic Revelry, Eight Views of Actors in Their Dressing Rooms, Enchanted Wood Florist, Entangled, Enyalios, Female Nude Three Quarter Length Beside Her Left an Apple Tree, Festival Mask, Flowering Chysanthemums, Following Instructions, Gathering Wild Mushrooms, Geisha in Orange Kimono Admiring a Samurai, Giant Vulva, Glowing Vulva at Ryogoku Bridge, Harigata II, Harikata, Harimise, Hekaerge, Her Voice, Inganok Jewelers, Kagema, Kalahantarika, Kanishta, Khajuraho, Khalkokorustes, Khandita, Khrysee, Khrysopelex, Kiss Amongst Discarded Tissue, Konsheishin the Penis God, Kypris, Kytherian, La Vita Nuova, Lady in Speckled Pink Kimono, Liaison, Longing, Loosening the Obi, Lovers’ Parodies of Sumo Holds, Lovers with Rutting Cats, Makhanitis, Male Nude Arms Upstretched, Man with Phallus Head, Manners Among Men and Women in the Red Light District, Medical Procedure, Men Ringing Bells with Penises, Miaiphonos, Mischievous Spirit, My Sweetest Lesbia, Needlework, Night Thoughts, Nikephoros, Nude Woman Reclining, Nymphia, Octopus and Abalone Diver, Okayaki, On the Death of His Mistress, Penis Admiration, Picture Books and Pleasure Toys, Pink Mood, Playful Wooden Mallets, Proshitapathika, Ronin, Saint Foutin de Varailles, Samurai in a Graveyard By Night, Sapphics, Signior Dildo, Sleeping Nymphs and Satyrs, Snowy Mountains and Kingfisher, Springtime Playfulness, Standing Female Nude, Street Festival, Sumai No Sechie, Svadhinaopatika, Symmakhia, Tea, The Arbor, The Balcony, The Clod and the Pebble, The Doom of Beauty, The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife, The Face of All the World Is Changed I Think, The First Encounter, The Flower Song, The Gilman House Hotel, The Hell of Great Heat, The Oblation, The Passionate Shepard to His Love, The Presence of Love, The Ragged Wood, The Ring, The Rose in the Deeps of His Heart, The Spell of Amorous Love, The Steeple, The Vine, The Zadok Allen Vinyard, Thoos, Tissue, To Helen, Unveiled, Ushi, Vasakasajja, Vipralabda, Voyeurs Among the Cherry Blossoms, Wrestlers

Halloweenie: 

General: All Souls, All Souls’ Night 1917, Araw Ng Mga Patay, Autumn Cider, Autumn Coolness, Bite Me, Bonfire Night, Boo, Calaveras, Carlin, Chant D’Automne, Day of the Skulls, Dia De Los Natitas, Feeding the Dead, Fizzy Jack O’Lantern, Flor De Muerto, Ghost House, Ghosts in Love, Halloween in Innsmouth, Halloween: Brooklyn, Halloween: Los Angeles, Halloween: New Orleans, Halloween: San Francisco, Huesos de Santo, Lambs-Wool, Le Revenant, Mango-Infused Pumpkin Chai Latte, Meditation in Autumn, Nothing But Death, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Pumpkin Vines, Punkie Night, Samhainophobia, Sonnet D’Automne, Suck It, Tattie Bogle, The Apparition, The Death of Autumn, The Hag, The Hell-Gate of Ireland, The Tears of Lilith, The Vampire Bride, The Wild Swans at Coole, Third Charm, To Autumn, Witch Dance

Sleepy Hollow: Fearful Pleasure, Gunpowder, Ichabod Crane, The Churchyard, The Goblin Rider, The Hessian of the Hollow, The School House, Wiley’s Swamp 

Arachnophobia 2012: Goldenrod Crab Spider, Orb Weaver Spider, Wolf Spider

Order of the Dragon: Carfax Abbey, Dr. John Seward, Lucy Westenra, R.M. Renfield, The Brides of Dracula, The Castle, Wilhelmina Murray

The Literary Vampire: Ariadne Brunnell, Clarimonde, Cristina, Julia Stone, Mircalla Countess Karnstein, Perle von Mauren, Sarah, The Girl

Gothic Literature: A Howl in the Darkness, Ecclesiastical Excesses, Odd Portents, The Byronic Antihero, The Creeping Mist, The Decrepit House, The Infernal Lover, The Madwoman, The Shadowy and the Sublime, The Unsavory Grave-Diggers, The Unsteady Governess

Apples: The Black Apple of Saturn, The Glittering Apple of the Stars, The Golden Apple of the Sun, The Silver Apple of the Moon

The Haunted House: The Atrocious Attic, The Bloody Banister, The Chilling Cellar, The Forbidding Foyer, The Ghastly Garden, The Heinous Hedge-Maze, The Perilous Parlor, The Sinister Salon, The Twisted Oak Tree, The Wretched Rose Window

An Evening in Hades: Regina Erebi, The Nymphae Avernales 

Yules:

General: Archangel Winter, Autumn and Winter, Black Ice, But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light, Christmas Rose, Cloth of Gold, Ded Moroz, Diable en Boite, Diwali, Dust of Snow, Evening Cicadas and Red Peppers, Faunalia, Frau Holle, Frost at Midnight, Gelt, Haloa, Hypothermia, Ice Queen, Jolasveinar, Knecht Ruprecht, La Befana, Larentalia, Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills, Midwinter's Eve, Mistletoe, Nes Gadol Haya Sham, Noche Buena, Now Winter Nights Enlarge, Nuclear Winter, On Darkness, Perchta, Pink Snowballs, Pumpkin Masala Rooibos, Skadi, Sleipnir, Snow Bunny, Snow-Flakes, Snowball Fracas, Sol Invictus, The Cracked Bell, The Darkling Thrush, The First Soft Snow, The Magi, The Season of Ghosts, The Shivering Boy, The Snow Maiden, The Snow Storm, Visiting the Temple of Auspicious Fortune Alone on the Winter Solstice, When the Winter Chysanthemums Go, Winter-Time, Woods in Winter, Yellow Snowballs, Yule Cat, Yuletide

Miskatonic Valley Yuletide Faire: Mother Shub's Spiced Lait de Chevre, Pet Migah Bird, The Adoration of the Mi-Go

Frankenstein: A Blot Upon the Earth, A Companion of the Same Nature, A Torrent of Light, Amiable and Lovely Creatures, Beautiful and Adored, Breathless Horror, Days and Nights in Vaults and Charnel Houses, Inextinguishable Hatred, Mocking the Invisible World with Its Own Shadows, Insupportable Misery, Pale Student of Unhallowed Arts, Pride of Wisdom, Solitary and Abhorred, Sorrowful Affection, The Country of Eternal Light, The Moon Gazed on My Midnight Labors, The Reward of My Benevolence, Till Death, Workshop of Filthy Creation

The Little Match Girl: Colder and Colder, In Brightness and In Joy, The Cold Hour of Dawn, A Wonderful Light, The Last Evening of the Year, The Most Wonderful Christmas Tree, Thousands of Lights

Christmas Carol: A Cold Clear Winter Day, A Golden Idol, Bob Cratchit's Hearth, Changing the Shadows, Christmas Eve on the Moor, Ignorance and Want, Incessant Torture of Remorse, Shadows of What May Be, The Chained Phantoms, The First of the Three Spirits, The School, The Second of the Three Spirits, Whoop

Wind in the Willows: All They Had Seen and All They Had Lost, Badger, Mole, Nowhere in Particular, Rat, The Gaoler's Daughter, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, The Sea Rat

The Nutcracker: Dance of the Mirlitons, Harlequin and Columbine, Klara, Sugar Plum Fairy, The Chinese Dance, The Clock Strikes Midnight, The Nutcracker, The Russian Dance, The Waltz of the Flowers, The Waltz of the Snowflakes, Valse Finale et Apotheose

 
BPTP:

General: Bauble, Blueberry Peppermint, Bogle, Boneshaking Antique Velocipede, Celeste, Clytie, Comforting Plush Companion, Coxcomb, Crypt King, Cykranoshian Catnip, Deathly Pride, Desiccated Frostberry Pie Filling, Dreadful Lies, Echo, Eclat, Fee, Fern Frost, Ginger Skulls, Gluhwein, Helios, Hellion, Hollyberry & Mistletoe, Honey Gingerbread, Humbug, Jingu, Kitty, Knick-Knack, L’Autunno, L’Essence de Coeur Libere des Tenebres Extrait, L’essence de L’ardeur, L’Essence de la Passion, L’Essence du Chagrin, L’Estate, L’Inverno, La Fee Verte, La Primavera, Left His Nurse While in a Crowd, Licorice Bats, Lola, Lucy Kissed, Luna Azul, Marotte, Monsterbait: BiggerCritters, Motley, MVJBA: Dog Days of Summer, Narkissos, Ninon, Noisome Clockwork Tin Locomotive, Playing with a Loaded Gun, Playing with Dangerous Toys, Pyramus, Red Rose, Scattered Gloom, Seramis, Slaugh, Snowblind, Sweet Winter Berry Ale, Tchotchkie, The Agony of Heartache, The Agony of Loss, The Ecstasy of Passion, The Ecstasy of True Love, Thisbe, Tomoe Gozen, TP’ed Trees, Trick #2, Uncertain Horror, Veronica, Virginia, Ysabel, Zenobia

Retail Exclusive: 
General: Absinthe and Lace, Black Death, Black Heart, Black Lace, Creature Feature, Dark Delicacies, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Ein Kuss von Krampus, El Amor y la Muerte, German Expressionist Horror, Gothic Horror, Haloes, Heavenly Love and Earthly Love, Heretic, Judith and Holofernes, Lucifer, Mad Kate, Midnight Bell, Mourning Lace, Occurrence at the Diner, Parsifal, Prospero, Psychological Horror, Red Lace, Roxpustnica, Silas Ruthyn, Story Time at Dark Delicacies, Tattered Lace, Une Folle Enterprise, Victorian Garden, Wezwanie / Hold