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In New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy laments the approaching close of summer and the advent of sixth grade. Growing up in a household with an overworked father whom he rarely sees, an alcoholic mother who paints wonderful canvases that are never displayed, an older brother who serves as both tormentor and protector, and a younger sister who inhabits her own secret world, the boy takes his amusements where he can find them. Some of his free time i...

"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 ...

New collection from one of the most popular writers in sf&f Includes a new unpublished story wide review net cast

"A Terror", by Jeffrey Ford, is a dark fantasy/horror novelette about a strange encounter Miss Emily Dickinson has one early September morning, and the consequences for her and others."Ford captures the rhythms and attitudes of [Emily Dickinson's] Victorian times in a manner that is simultaneously vintage and eternal."--LocusAt 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

The Thyme Fiend by Jeffrey Ford is a dark fantasy novelette about a young man who can only prevent seeing visions by eating or smoking thyme. When he finds the skeleton of a missing man the skeleton begins to haunt him. What does it want?"Surely 'The Thyme Fiend' will enter the annals of essential, classic ghost stories. Rich with the hot, dusty evocations of a simpler, yet no less demanding era—small-town USA circa 1915, quasi-Bradburian."--LocusAt the Pu...

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 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.

There are worse things than a local gangster’s cronies lurking in New Jersey’s wetlands...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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.” – Jonathan CarrollA bold and intriguing fabulist novel that reimagines two of the most legendary characters in American literature—Captain Ahab and Ishmael of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick—from the critically acclaimed Edgar and World Fantasy award-winning author of The Girl in the Glass and The Shadow Year.At the end of a long journey, Captain Ahab ...

Praise for Jeffrey Ford:"Outstanding. . . . Ford uses . . . incongruously lyrical phrases to infuse the everyday with a nebulous magic."—Publishers Weekly, Best Books of the Year(Starred Review)"For lovers of the weird and fantastic and lovers of great writing, this is a treasure trove of disturbing visions, new worlds and fully realized craft."—Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)"Properly creepy, but from time to time deliciously funny and heart-brea...