Some yes, and some no. All of the Cluny stories by Michael Payne have been published in "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword & Sorceress", an annual series of professional paperbacks available from Amazon.com. This is Jenner's first "Doc Rat" short story; all of his previous adventures are available for free in the archive of the online "Doc Rat" comic strip. But yes, his story "Pick-Up at Hanging Drop" is a direct sequel to a story arc in the comic strip. "Festival of Vampires" is the twelfth "Perissa" short story by Brock Hoagland; all the earlier stories are available in "Tales of Perissa" books 1 and 2, still available from United Publications in England. "Sibling Rivalry" by Kyell Gold takes place in a "gap" in his "Shadow of the Father" novel, available from Sofawolf Press; but you may feel that you have to read all of Gold's Argaea books to get the full background. Kristin Fontaine's "Reflections of Things to Come" is the first "Tai-Pan" story published outside "Tales of the Tai-Pan Universe", which has fifty issues over the past twenty years; but all are available (some as reprints) from the Tai-Pan website. Enough of Chuck Melville's "Felicia, the Vixen Sorceress" stories are available from Amazon.com to give you sufficient background; and his "Felicia: Sorceress of Katara" comic strip can be read for free through its archive online. (For both "Doc Rat" and "Felicia", I recommend the online Belfry WebComics Index website.) This is Roz Gibson's first "Jack Salem" short story; all of his previous adventures have been in comic-book form, most of which have been reprinted as graphic novels by FurPlanet Productions. Elizabeth McCoy has reprinted her Kintaran short stories from the 1990s "PawPrints Fanzine" as a series of Kindle booklets, all available today. All of Kevin Frane's "Iolite League" stories are available from Furry specialty publishers. Maggie Hogarth's "Alysha Forrest" stories are available in her novel "Alysha's Fall" and her Kindle books.
That leaves only Ken Pick's previous Brigit Bunny stories in "Yarf!" that you would have to go trawling on eBay or Furbuy to find. I have been urging Ken to write enough more to fill a collection of them.
In a sense, all of these stories are spoilers. You can tell by their existence that their protagonists have survived their earlier life-threatening adventures.
Some yes, and some no. All of the Cluny stories by Michael Payne have been published in "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword & Sorceress", an annual series of professional paperbacks available from Amazon.com. This is Jenner's first "Doc Rat" short story; all of his previous adventures are available for free in the archive of the online "Doc Rat" comic strip. But yes, his story "Pick-Up at Hanging Drop" is a direct sequel to a story arc in the comic strip. "Festival of Vampires" is the twelfth "Perissa" short story by Brock Hoagland; all the earlier stories are available in "Tales of Perissa" books 1 and 2, still available from United Publications in England. "Sibling Rivalry" by Kyell Gold takes place in a "gap" in his "Shadow of the Father" novel, available from Sofawolf Press; but you may feel that you have to read all of Gold's Argaea books to get the full background. Kristin Fontaine's "Reflections of Things to Come" is the first "Tai-Pan" story published outside "Tales of the Tai-Pan Universe", which has fifty issues over the past twenty years; but all are available (some as reprints) from the Tai-Pan website. Enough of Chuck Melville's "Felicia, the Vixen Sorceress" stories are available from Amazon.com to give you sufficient background; and his "Felicia: Sorceress of Katara" comic strip can be read for free through its archive online. (For both "Doc Rat" and "Felicia", I recommend the online Belfry WebComics Index website.) This is Roz Gibson's first "Jack Salem" short story; all of his previous adventures have been in comic-book form, most of which have been reprinted as graphic novels by FurPlanet Productions. Elizabeth McCoy has reprinted her Kintaran short stories from the 1990s "PawPrints Fanzine" as a series of Kindle booklets, all available today. All of Kevin Frane's "Iolite League" stories are available from Furry specialty publishers. Maggie Hogarth's "Alysha Forrest" stories are available in her novel "Alysha's Fall" and her Kindle books.
That leaves only Ken Pick's previous Brigit Bunny stories in "Yarf!" that you would have to go trawling on eBay or Furbuy to find. I have been urging Ken to write enough more to fill a collection of them.
In a sense, all of these stories are spoilers. You can tell by their existence that their protagonists have survived their earlier life-threatening adventures.
Fred Patten