There is a town that brews a strange intoxicant from a rare fruit called the deathberry—and once a year a handful of citizens are selected to drink it. . . .There is a life lived beneath the water—among rotted buildings and bloated corpses—by those so overburdened by the world's demands that they simply give up and go under. . . .In this mesmerizing blend of the familiar and the fantastic, multiple award-winning New York Times notable author Jeffrey Ford creates tr...

Starting with the Nebula-winning title story, this "outstanding" fantasy collection by the author of Ahab's Return will have you "entranced and delighted" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Few writers can extract as much enchantment from the mundane as award-winning author Jeffrey Ford. His talent for storytelling is readily evident in The Empire of Ice Cream, his collection of ordinary and extraordinary juxtapositions.The bitte...

These are Jeffrey Ford's personal selections spanning the decades of his career and representing his many styles—genre hybrids, literary approaches to SF/F/H tropes, forays into the New Weird as one of its early practitioners, realist-auto-biographical/fantastic/ horror mash-ups, and straight-on fantasy stories. Ford is at home across the map of speculative fiction but is tied to, and claims allegiance to, no country.If you are looking for a collection in which every story is a win...

The World Fantasy Award–winning collection from the architect of the Well-Built City TrilogyNo matter how far into the realms of space and fantasy Jeffrey Ford's stories may venture, they have one trait in common: They're grounded in the universal. The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, Ford's debut collection, is no exception. "Creation," which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story and a nomination for a Nebula Award, relates a boy's attempts to a...

A man is hired to transcribe the words of a mysterious woman who speaks in "spews" during self-induced trances, but he soon discovers an intriguing story coalescing within her seemingly incoherent rambles.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

“Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen….A rare and wonderful talent.”—Jonathan Carroll, author of The Wooden SeaEclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford—along with imaginative, provocative, mesmerizing, and brilliant. His powerful dark fantasy, The Physiognomy, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; his novel, The Girl in the Glass

After surviving a violent crime, a smalltown librarian begins leaving his body—and discovering dark secrets—in the award-winning author's fantasy thriller.Owen is a creature of habit. Every morning just after seven a.m., he picks up his coffee and sweet roll at the local deli where he would invariably see young Helen Roan behind the counter. Then one morning changes everything for Owen. That morning, he attempts to save Helen from being murdered . . . and fails.

A modern fable based on the labyrinths created by us allBelius has led a peaceful if not uneventful existence until now, as far as minotaurs' lives go. He mostly keeps to his house, avoiding anyone outside of his family. Despite his human parents' efforts to shield him from the potential hysteria of the townspeople, Belius hears about something beyond his home's walls, even beyond the town itself—something called the Wider World. He decides to explore this strange p...

"Poignant and punchy." — The New York TimesThree friends go looking for treasure and find horror in Jeffrey Ford's The Twilight Pariah.All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last college vacation was to get drunk and play archaeologist in an old house in the woods outside of town. When they excavate the mansion's outhouse they find way more than they bargained for: a sealed bottle filled with a red liquid, along with the bizarre ...

The story of a secret, privately funded, late 60's space mission as told by the science fiction writer who was aboard.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.