Strange City is a Classic World of Darkness fiction anthology, edited by Staley Krause and Stewart Wieck and published by HarperCollins in 1996.
The book reprints short stories from three White Wolf-published World of Darkness anthologies: The Beast Within (Vampire: The Masquerade), When Will You Rage? (Werewolf: The Apocalypse), and Death and Damnation (Wraith: The Oblivion). The titular city is San Francisco, the common setting of the stories reprinted in this volume; the city also served as the setting to a number of other World of Darkness novels and short stories that were published by White Wolf (or HarperCollins) in the mid-1990s.
Another subsequent World of Darkness fiction anthology, City of Darkness: Unseen, was likewise set in and named after San Francisco. Most stories in that volume shared a cast of characters with - or were direct sequels to - other short stories published in the same time period; several of the stories that were revisited in City of Darkness: Unseen were republished in Strange City.
Contents
- Introduction by Stewart Wieck
- "Dancing with the Devil" by Keith "Doc" Herber (reprinted from The Beast Within)
- "Hunter's Blues" by Scott Ciencin (reprinted from When Will You Rage?)
- "Glimpses of Before" by John H. Steele (reprinted from Death and Damnation)
- "The Voice of the Hummingbird" by S.P. Somtow (reprinted from The Beast Within)
- "The Bye-Bye Club" by Ray Winninger (reprinted from When Will You Rage?)
- "The Way It Goes" by Thomas Kane (reprinted from Death and Damnation)
- "The Scarlet Letters" by Scott H. Urban (reprinted from The Beast Within)
- "Descent" by Sam Chupp (reprinted from The Beast Within)
- "Wolf Trap" by Richard Lee Byers (reprinted from When Will You Rage?)
- "Shards" by Phil Brucato (reprinted from When Will You Rage?)
- "Rootbound" by R.S. Martin (reprinted from Death and Damnation)
- "The Art of Dying" by Lawrence Watt-Evans (reprinted from The Beast Within)
- "The Waters of Lethe" by Bill Bridges (reprinted from When Will You Rage?)
- "Power" by Don Bassingthwaite (reprinted from The Beast Within)