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S.P. Somtow's UTOPIA HUNTERS is an introduction to one of the most far-flung galactic civilizations ever created, In the words of Theodore Sturgeon, Somtow's CHRONICLES OF THE HIGH INQUEST deal with "the greatest magnitude of spectacle and color since Stapledon." UTOPIA HUNTERS can be read out of sequence.

The sequel to S.P. Somtow's groundbreaking novel "Vampire Juniction" - voted one of the top 40 horror books of all time - called by Robert Bloch, author of "Psycho", "the closest thing to a nightmare ever put on paper.

S.P. Somtow's novel The Stone Buddha's Tears was inspired by a real-life incident in 1991 in which the city of Bangkok, about to host an international conference, decided to throw up a corrugated iron fence around a slum in order to conceal it from the passing delegates. In this fantasy novel of innocence and hope, the lives of two boys from opposite ends of the social spectrum intersect because of the wall. The protagonist, a beggar known onl...

Two boys from impossibly distant strata of society, a novice monk whose father is a political big wig and beggar enslaved to the mafia, meet by chance on a Bangkok street and between them concoct plan to bring down an entire infrastructure of corruption. Street kids, politicians, monks and elephants will play a role in this adventure story that is also a touching tale of an unlikely friendship.

The complete vocal score of Somtow Sucharitkul's opera "Ayodhya", written for the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Reign of the King of Thailand. This grand opera retells the entire story of Thailand's national epic, the Ramayana, in modern terms. Premiered in 2006 with Michael Chance, Nancy Yuen, John Ames, and Charles Hens. Piano reduction with detailed orchestra notes by Trisdee na Patalung. LIbretto is included.

S.P. Somtow flogs a dead horse to life in this astonishing collection of sonnets. Horror and humor, pathos and putridity, the sublime, the subliminal, and the sublimated all blend together in this tour-de-force of madcap invention. Exposing the human condition in all its gritty nastiness and unwitting comedy, this book is the first collection of S.P. Somtow's poetry since the pretentious outpourings of his adolescent years. "There's life in th...

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Now acknowledged as one of the most important classics of twentieth-century gothic literarture, S.P. Somtow's tale of a twelve-year-old rock star vampire, his Jungian analyst, and the Wagnerian conductor who is his nemesis turned the entire genre upside down in the 1980s and is considered the ancestor of the "splatterpunk" movement. Vampire Junction has been voted one of the top forty horror books of all time. Timmy Valentine: "He'll steal ...

Featuring the World Fantasy Award Winning story "The Bird Catcher, " OTHER EDENS is a collection of five genre-defying novellas by Thai author-composer S.P. Somtow, author of the acclaimed "Jasmine Nights" and "Dragon's Fin Soup." From 1st Century Palestine to the baroque perplexities of the American South and postwar Siam, with characters from the Virgin Mary to a Chinese serial killer, the stories explore the idea of alternate paradises and ...

In this exotic retelling of the fairy tale of Bluebeard, a New Age thirty-something from California is swept off her feet by an enigmatic Thai millionaire and soon finds herself in Bangkok's brave new world of shamans, shopping malls, and high society serial killers. Originally written as a cliff-hanging series for Bangkok's The Nation newspaper, The Other City of Angels is a roller-coaster roman-à-clef that leapfrogs from genre to g...