From the vaults of the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the extraordinary voice of multi-award-winning author Lucius Shepard.
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 wealthy Atlanta family. Stearns has been found adrift on the Carribean in a vessel owned by two Nicaraguans, both of whom are missing, he has been alone for eighteen days and has little memory of that time. Suspected of murder, Stearns is unconcerne...
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. At first, she wonders if the voice might be a prank played by Jackson's peyote-popping brother Will or his equally off-kilter sister Louise. But soon Sanie discovers that the ghostly voice is merely a single piece in the decadent, baroque puzzle ...
To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allen Poe, this anthology celebrates the depth and diversity of one of the most important figures in literature. Edited by multi-award winner, Ellen Datlow, it presents some of the foremost genre talents, brought together to re-imagine tales inspired by Poe.
Compiled by a multi-award winning editor, this collection commemorates the second centenary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. It features Poe-inspired tales by some of the finest talents in the fieldan all-star lineup featuring several Hugo, Edgar, Tiptree, and British Fantasy Award winners
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 obsessed with Viator to the point that the world beyond seems of consequence only as it relates to the ship. When their putative leader, Thomas Willander, is afflicted by a series of disturbing dreams, ...
