Jeffrey Ford
"Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen." – Jonathan Carroll
A 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.
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...The Great Depression has bound a nation in despair — and only a privileged few have risen above it: the exorbitantly wealthy ... and the hucksters who feed upon them. Diego, a seventeen-year-old illegal Mexican immigrant, owes his salvation to master grifter Thomas Schell. Together with Schell's gruff and powerful partner, they sail comfortably through hard times, scamming New York's grieving rich with elaborate, ingeniously staged séances
...World Fantasy Award finalist
It sounds innocuous. The routine world of college teaching. Quiet evenings on a porch with your wife. And then . . . maybe it's an unexpected light in a dark and uninhabited house, maybe it's a drainage tunnel that some poor kid is suddenly compelled to explore. Maybe there's a monkey in the woods or an angel that you'll need to fight if you want to gain tenure. Jeffrey Ford's...Here in one volume is the best fantasy of the year, chosen from the magazines, anthologis, and journals.
Editor Robert Silverberg is a five-time winner of the Nebula Award, and a four-time winner of the Hugo Award.
Karen Haber is the bestselling co-author of Science of the X-Men, and is a contributing writer to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She was also the editor of the essay collection editations
...Featuring
There are some “genuine gems” in this “enticing collection” of fifteen stories and three poems, all featuring “diverse takes on mythical beings associated with the protection of the natural world,” most involving...
For this enchanting anthology—a World Fantasy Award finalist—editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling “asked their contributors to reimagine Fäerie” in the present day, or “search...