Shadowhunter Chronicles: Short Fiction Collections

About the Shadowhunter Chronicles: Short Fiction Collections series

Alongside the main Shadowhunter novels, Cassandra Clare has written four collections of interconnected short stories that fill in corners of the same world. The Bane Chronicles gathers eleven stories tracing centuries of Magnus Bane's life, from his first meeting with a young Will Herondale to his early days with Alec Lightwood. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy follows Simon Lewis's uneasy return to Shadowhunter training after The Mortal Instruments, told across ten linked stories. Ghosts of the Shadow Market turns to the past, following the parabatai Jem Carstairs and Tessa Gray as they search the underground Shadow Markets across the decades for a way to help someone Jem cannot save alone. Better in Black is a later, solo-authored collection of ten original love stories pairing up couples from across the whole franchise -- Jace and Clary, Will and Tessa, Simon and Isabelle, Emma and Julian, James and Cordelia, and more -- and includes a sneak peek at The Wicked Powers.

The first three collections are co-written with other YA authors -- Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson appear across all three, joined by Robin Wasserman on Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy and by Robin Wasserman and Kelly Link on Ghosts of the Shadow Market. Better in Black, by contrast, is written by Clare alone. All four are companion material for readers already invested in the Shadowhunter Chronicles rather than an entry point, filling in backstory and romance beats that the main novels only gesture at.