Lucius Shepard is a grand master of dark fantasy, famed for his baroque yet utterly contemporary visions of existential subversion and hallucinatory collapse. In Dagger Key, his fifth major story collection,...

A chilling and mysterious voice becomes audible to Sanie shortly after she and her husband Jackson move into the decaying antebellum mansion that is the Bullard ancestral home in rural South Carolina....

A man walks into a bar. A dispute ensues, and the bartender kills him. He's sentenced to ten years for manslaughter. In prison, the convict, Wardlin Stuart, writes prayers addressed to no god in particular....

Jack Mustaine discovers Grail, Louisiana, when the BMW he "borrowed" to leave L.A. breaks down outside the town. The sheriff nearly scams him out of the car before Grail's top dog, Joe Dill, comes to...

In a landscape that will exist only for as long as it is imagined, VALENTINE unfolds to reveal the intricacies of the human heart. In South Florida, a hurricane alert waylays a journalist in the coastal...

In Aztechs, Shepard returns to the near-future setting of his Nebula Award-winning story, "R&R" (later part of Life During Wartime). El Rayo, the bustling border community grown up along the electrified...

Lucius Shepard's short fiction ranges far and wide over the field of SF and fantasy, and is crammed with show-stopper ideas and an intense originality. The Ends of the Earth is a testimonial to a genius...

This collection of fact and fiction was inspired by the time science fiction writer Lucius Shepard spent with Missoula Mike, Madcat, and other members of a controversial brotherhood known as the Freight...

Lucius Shepard's work ranges across the fields of fantasy, science fiction and magic realism, garnering comparisons with Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Best-known for the story...

Professeur d’histoire à l’université du Michigan, Dick Cyrus est l’auteur d’une hypothèse selon laquelle notre univers est anthropique. Lorsque des êtres issus d’autres univers y pénètrent, ils s’humanisent...

« Le soir, les rues sinueuses de Matinombre résonnaient de rires, de cris et de musiques antagonistes, grouillaient de poivrots, de bagarreurs, de vendeurs, de putains, de vide-goussets, de pickpockets...

Lucius Shepard's acclaimed Dragon Griaule stories are presented here for the first time in a single volume. This Fantasy Masterworks edition contains:'The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule''The Scalehunter's...

En six longs récits : le meilleur des plus récents textes de Lucius Shepard.Depuis la fosse du « Ground Zero » après le 11 septembre... Au sein d'un Mexique futuriste ultra violent où les I. A. se font...

« C’EST LA FILLE coiffée style Halloween. Coupe Morticia Addams, teinture noirde jais, mèches orangées asymétriques. Elle a vingt-quatre ou vingt-cinq ans. Une femme-enfant, songes-tu, qui dévore des...

En 1853, dans un lointain pays du Sud, en un monde séparé du nôtre par la plus infime marge de possibilité, la vallée de Carbonales, une région fertile entourant la cité de Teocinte et réputée pour sa...

« Si d'aventure vous allez faire une balade dans le sud-ouest de la Louisiane et que vous tombez sur une station-service délabrée où quelques vieux portant bretelles écoutent du base-ball à la radio en...

Auteur à succès, Thomas Cradle se découvre par hasard un homonyme romancier dont il ne savait rien. Intrigué, il se procure l’unique ouvrage de ce dernier, et réalise bientôt qu’au-delà de leur patronyme,...

En 1853, dans un lointain pays du Sud, en un monde séparé du nôtre par la plus infime marge de possibilité, la vallée de Carbonales, une région fertile entourant la cité de Teocinte et réputée pour sa...

Zoom avant sur les os du poignet que notre héros attaque à la scie à métaux, après avoir vaincu la peau au couteau. On met en route la bande-son : Joy Division, puis Nine Inch Nails, Johnny Thunders,...

Si un homme peut se mesurer à l’aune de ses obsessions, alors on aurait pu qualifier George Taborin de très petit, plus petit encore que les quartdhommes censés hanter les forêts de Tasmanie. Il était...

Londres, fin du XIXe siècle. Une métropole enfumée, étouffant sous le smog et les remugles de l’industrialisation en pleine explosion… Samuel Prothero est aliéniste. L’un des meilleurs de sa profession....

Dr Ezawa had made some remarkable discoveries about the Voodoo beliefs that persisted in the Louisiana bayou country - like how to create zombies by injecting corpses with the dirt from old slave graveyards.The...

The stories gathered here conduct the reader from the wastelands of the near future to the zoned-out bacchanals of Hollywood, from the fevered bordellos of Central America to the hallucinated revels of...

Curtis MscKinnon is an intemperate, naïve fool. Sure of his invulnerability as an American expatriate, he comes to Borneo to play at being disreputable. His illusions and charm make him a dangerous man:...

Castle Banat: a stronghold of insane enormity, created by a monstrous architectural genius. The size of Banat is such that it even has its own weather. Inside, room after room is filled with fantastical...

This collection by Lucius Shepard, one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in the 1980s, includes the eponymous story ¿Barnacle Bill the Spacer¿, about an attempted mutiny on a space station, which...

A washed-up actor, a mysterious motel and a Malaysian "woman of power" form the central elements in a riveting account of a rootless man forced to confront the impossible - but very real- demons of his...

The itinerant gun show draws together many subcultures from the margins of society: survivalists, Aryan brotherhoods, and the team of Rita Whitelaw and Jimmy Roy Guy, dealers in collectible arms. Rita...

Fourteen stories - including "Radiant Green Star", winner of the 2001 Locus Award for Best Novella - make up this classic collection. Leading off the book is the Nebula Award-winning title story, in which...

In the town of Trujillo, in Honduras, on the edge of the Mosquito Coast, Dr. Arturo Ochoa, a semi-retired psychiatrist, has a single patient: a troubled young man named Thomas Stearns, the son of a...