Five stories of horror and dark fantasy by James R. Sanford:

The Winter Beast - In the wake of Napoleon's invasion, a Russian aristocrat's oath casts him into a living nightmare with a creature he cannot fight.

The God Stone - Two children play a game with an ancient power.

Blood Bond -
A princess in medieval India must confront her brother's dark secret when she tries to rescue him from an evil alchemist.

A Family Tradition - A man's father has set him to a lifetime task of murder.

The Exalted - A man goes in search of his mother's foreign kin and finds that they are not quite human.