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,...

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...

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...

En ce vingt-deuxième jour de mai, ma vie semble prendre une tournure inattendue. Je suis toujours à l’orée des terres impies, là où, par temps clair, les ténèbres du Cercle rongent l’horizon. Je sais...

« 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...

Ils sont six. Paul of Perth, duc du Dragonshire, combattant le cercle de ténèbres qui broie la réalité et étrangle jusqu'à l'idée même du bien... Dernier Frêne, l'homme-arbre qui parcourt un monde à l'heure...

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...

Expert de la sécurité domestique, désormais en difficulté, David Le Gary décide de se faire implanter un programme perceptif, destiné à l’expansion de facultés innées et basé sur la personnalité d’un...

Bienvenue à L'Eternité, tout nouveau night club se dressant en marge de Moscou, conçu par le mystérieux Iouri Lebedev, l'ancien homme fort des mafias russes.Pour Viktor Chemayev, nouveau Russe désireux...

« Tout cela s’est passé il n’y a pas si longtemps sur la station Solitaire, par-delà l’orbite martienne, là où sont assemblés et lancés les astronefs de reconnaissance qui s’évanouissent dans une gerbe...

Dans le désert du Mexique, la ville d’El Rayo s’étend le long de la frontière américano-mexicaine, frontière formée d’un impénétrable mur de lasers et dont El Rayo est un point de passage secret. Cette...

New-York, après le 11 septembre. Bobby travaille dans la Fosse – cette plaie béante qu’est Ground Zero. Pompier, son boulot consiste à déblayer les décombres du World Trade Center. Amas de ruines où,...

Michael est spécialiste des reptiles. Ce qui tombe bien : un de ses anciens amis a besoin de ses compétences en République Démocratique du Congo. Là-bas, cinq personnes sont accusées d’avoir tué et dévoré...

Venu du nord-ouest, Dernier Frêne a longtemps marché pour arriver en vue du col de Saigneterre. Soixante jours durant, il a contemplé les vestiges de l’Ancien Monde : ponts effondrés, immeubles décapités,...

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...

Ariel brilliantly transmutes some traditional SF concepts - alien incursions, the mysteries of quantum physics - into an astonishing, often moving reflection on love and obsession, memory and identity,...