Legionnaires fighting hordes of wolf creatures with elemental magic.  Steampunk pirates having aerial dogfights while magic crystals blast around all around them. A hard-boiled Chicago P.I. using his wizard training to see if a race of vampires killed a member of one of the fae courts.   

Also, talking cats!  Skulls, too.  Really just one skull named Bob.

Welcome to the worlds of bestselling author Jim Butcher, who loves to write about things that talk, but shouldn’t.  Butcher has been exploring the realms of fantasy and horror for over 20 years, while putting his own spin on each one.  His latest book, released next month from Penguin, is “The Olympian Affair,” book 2 in his steampunk series “The Cinder Spires.”  Butcher had a conversation with me at this year's New York Comic Con, where we talked about his new book and everything else under the sun, from airships on down.

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