A feast of short stories from Rachel Lawson's The Magicians series. Note this is the text version and this book is also available a audio book.
Starting with * Star Crossed
A Novelette
The Necromantor, the King of Doom meets his match with a grey alien diplomat's sister Mookaite Ga her brother tries to break them up not because of racism but because he's a jinx because all women he loves die according to the drunk Masked Chicken. They have Romeo and Juliet relationship. It all goes wrong when the press turns up and the secret lovers are caught revealing the existence of aliens and their relationship. Will it help or hinder their relationship?
The book ends with The Requiem a short story where the ghost of one the Magicians goes to his own funeral drunk.
Most of the stories have a gothic dark fantasy or horror feel. The order of the book here:
Starcrossed
The Cult of Death
The Innocent Killer
The Grudge
The Last Dance
Left for dead
Danse Macabre
Fetch
Alien invasion
Surrender offers rest, But I'd die for peace
Broken
Hell is Empty and All the Devils Are Here
The Necromancer goes to jail
Jasper's Fate
The Emperor is dead, long live the King
The requiem