For decades, John Shirley has been a leading author of weird fiction, with an impressively wide range.
Chilling terror mixes with wry humor as Shirley makes his fantasy worlds inescapably real..
Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, and Jack Vance, John Shirley reveals an exuberant imagination, a skill at portraying vivid and memorable characters, and a narrative pace that carries the reader on from beginning to end with breathless excitement.
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In this pair of tales, written in the tradition of Robert E.
In the novella "A Prince in the Kingdom of Ghosts," Korean-American Kerrin Kim, shattered by his father\'s death, is himself murdered-and finds himself in an afterlife realm where he must assume the responsibilities of a Prince in a land of ghosts, elemental spirits, and other supernatural threats.
But as Brinn becomes intimate with Maitha, the Queen of Atlantis, he senses that more baleful creatures threaten the continent, including the menacing "People of the Deep," foreshadowing Atlantis\'s imminent doom.
The short novel A Sorcerer of Atlantis introduces us to two adventurers, Brimm and Snoori, who find themselves in Atlantis, battling an array of bizarre monsters in the company of the warrior princess Selinn of Ur.
Here, in two new and unpublished works, Shirley ventures into the realm of fantasy.
His work stretches from science fiction to supernatural horror to psychological terror and everything in between.
For decades, John Shirley has been a leading author of weird fiction, with an impressively wide range
