‘These six stories explore ground far from the high fantasy with which dragons are frequently associated. Fans of Shepard’s unusual and often powerful Griaule tales will be delighted to have them all in one place’
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QUARTERED ABOARD THE FREIGHTER, VIATOR, run aground twenty years before on a remote section of the Alaskan coast, the four men hired to determine the ship’s worth at salvage have begun to exhibit a variety of eccentric behaviors. They’ve become...
Steel Rails, Brittle Lives
In early 1998, author Lucius Shepard embarked on a new journey…Shepard joined the “hobo nation”—riding the rails throughout the western half of the United States, his “neighbors” the disenfranchised, the...
VACANCY & ARIEL
For many of us, the Ace Double Novels of the ’50s and ’60s have long been a source both of pleasure and nostalgia. This new double volume from Subterranean Press stands squarely in that distinguished tradition,...
Sally Ann and Martha. Two women, searching for love. Finding terror.
During a terrifying storm, a gentle childhood is destroyed by a twisted man who promises love but delivers nightmare.
In the lightless depths of an underground labyrinth, unseen...
In Lisa Tuttle’s stories, the everyday domestic world of her female protagonists is invaded by the bizarre, the uncanny, the horrific. In ‘Bug House’, a woman who goes to visit her aunt is shocked to find she is dying – but even more...
Sarah and Brian were the perfect couple ... until Brian fell in love with someone else. Sarah's life was shattered. Sarah was shattered.
Miraculously, Sarah soon had a new lover--one who came to her in dreams, who promised her anything she wanted,...
After receiving a large insurance settlement, young couple Gwen and George fulfill a dream by buying their own little island, a secluded, private paradise surrounded by a lush green landscape of plants.
What the real estate man didn't tell them was...
“A well-made piece of dynamite. . . . For all their talk, the author seems to be saying men will permit their souls to be carried away bit by bit and auctioned off to the highest bidder. Samson has written a suspenseful, engrossing novel with the...
Surely, it was only a game. In the orderly, pleasant world Barbara inhabited, nice children -- and they *were* nice children -- didn't hold an adult captive.
But what Barbara didn't count on was the heady effect their new-found freedom would have on...