Best Selling Books by Jeffrey Ford

A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2015. Includes stories by Nino Cipri, Seth Dickinson, Jeffrey Ford, Yoon Ha Lee, Maria Dahvana Headley, David Herter, Kameron Hurley, Noah Keller, David D. Levine, Michael Livingston, Usman T. Malik, Haralambi Markov, Daniel José Older, Malka Older, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kelley Robson, Veronica Schanoes, Priya Sharma, Brian Staveley, Sabrina Vourvoulias, and Ray Wood. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

En 1960, una pequeña comunidad de Long Island se ve afectada por extraños sucesos. Tras las huellas de estos se encuentran un joven y su hermano mayor, Jim, que pasan los últimos días del verano sumergidos en un ambiente asfixiante, con un padre pluriempleado y una madre alcohólica.Un merodeador anda suelto por las calles y un hombre observa amenazador a los dos jóvenes desde un coche frente a su casa. Pero cuando un chico del pueblo desaparece sin dejar rastro, ambos tienen claro que el culpable es el señor White. La sorpresa llega cuando descubren que Mary, la hermana pequeña de los chicos, mueve de manera misteriosa figuritas en una maqueta del pueblo, mostrando sucesos antes de que ocurran.

The acclaimed author of the World Fantasy Award-winning New York Times Notable novel, The Physiognomy, returns us now to a shadow purgatory of strange dreams and striking moral ambiguities. Once Cley held a position of respect and fear in Master Drachton Below''scruel autocracy. As physiognomist, Cley practiced a sanctioned, twisted science that condemned men and women to death for the size of their foreheads or thrust of their chins. Yet Cley emerged from the ruins of the Well-Built City a better man, dedicated to healing the physical ills of the simpler agrarian society he has chosen to join. Below''s great evil, however, has never abated''and he was not destroyed when his dark social experiment exploded. For his own senseless reasons, he has unleashed a plague of sleep upon Cley''s friends and neighbors''a disease that, ironically, has felled the Master as well. And the only antidote lies in a terrible place the former physiognomist fears to enter but knows he must: in the surreal house of a madman''s dreams, imagination, and remembrances; in the intricate palace of memories Drachton Below has scrupulously constructed in the stygian depths of his mind.

El retratista Piero Piambo, la gran sensación de Nueva York en 1893, siente menguar sus ambiciones artísticas, pese a in-mortalizar a todos los nuevos ricos de la ciudad en sus óleos. Pero entonces recibe un lucrativo encargo distinto a los demás. Su cliente es una tal señora Charbuque; el único problema es que Piambo no podrá verla, sino que tendrá que sentarse delante de un elegante biombo y su modelo le contará todo sobre su vida, dándole pistas por las que él debe adivinar su apariencia. Mientras se esfuerza lo indecible para capturar en el óleo el rostro de una mujer a la que no ha visto jamás, una serie de asesinatos tienen lugar en la ciudad. Y al tiempo que la relación de Piambo con la señora Charbuque va com-plicándose, este sospecha cada vez más que esos terribles acontecimientos, su encargo imposible y su extraña «benefactora» están íntimamente relacionados.

Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard present this introduction to the work of Jeffrey Ford, #4 in a series of scholarly primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. With commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD, and beautifully illustrated by artist Michelle Prebich, discover the vast and fantastic writing of Jeffrey Ford.

Diego, un joven inmigrante mexicano, es acogido por el as del timo Thomas Schell. Juntos capean con comodidad el tem-poral de la Gran Depresión estafando a los neoyorquinos pudientes mediante sesiones de espiritismo. Hasta que un acontecimiento imposible lo cambia todo. En una de sus sesiones Schell ve la imagen de una niña en una puerta de cristal, que suplica en silencio la ayuda del estafador. A pesar de saber que sus poderes paranormales son una farsa, Schell ofrece sus servicios para ayudar a encontrar a la niña perdida, arrastrando a Diego con él hacia el interior de un complejo laberinto de mortales secretos y terribles experiencias.

Strane cose succedono in una tranquilla cittadina di Long Island. È solo l''inizio di una scia di delitti e avvenimenti misteriosi. Due ragazzini decidono di indagare, guidati dalle premonizioni della sorella più piccola. Ma una volta scoperta l''identità del killer, i tre si ritrovano nel suo mirino e quello che era iniziato come un gioco si trasforma in un incubo destinato a segnare la loro infanzia.

Découvrez une nouvelle facette de l''horreur et du fantastique moderne dans ce texte issu de l''anthologie Ténèbres 2016. Retrouvez l''intégralité des 19 nouvelles de fantastique et d''horreur sélectionnées par Benoît Domis dans Ténèbres 2016, la revue phare du fantastique moderne. Disponible chez Bragelonne en numérique, en coédition avec Dreampress.

The ruins of the Well-Built City and the village of Wenau are not all the world has to offer-there is also the Beyond, a dark land between life and death, populated by flying demons, restless ghosts, invisible terrors, and ravenous trees. Cast out by the people of Wenau after finding a cure for their sickness, former physiognomist Cley sets out to brave the dark mountains and seas of the Beyond in order to find the woman he doomed on his quest to destroy the Well-Built City. As Cley journeys deeper into the unknown, he is accompanied by an invisible companion-the demon Misrix, who is searching for his own humanity.

The multiple Bram Stoker Award(R) nominated Horror Library anthology series is back! Shepherded by new editor Eric J. Guignard -- himself a past Stoker winner -- Horror Library Volume 6 is imbued with a new level of literary energy and purpose. It features 27 brand new horror short stories, written by 27 different authors, including well-known pros and up-and-coming new talents. As always, if you''d like a snapshot of where modern literary horror fiction is headed, you''ve found the right book. Don''t miss Horror Library Volume 6! The Librarian wants to see YOU.

Prayers Before Meals offers the reader 365 different and thoughtful short prayers that are suitable for all ages and perfect for family mealtimes. Each prayer is unique in its simplicity and its relation to our daily life. There are also additional prayers for special occasions.

anthology of fine art images from Laura Christensen, and fiction and poetry from numerous authors

From the legends of Atlantis, El Dorado, and Shangri-La to classic novels such as King Solomon''s Mine, The Land That Time Forgot, and The Lost World, readers have long been fascinated by the idea of lost worlds and mythical kingdoms. Read short stories featuring the discovery of such worlds or kingdoms--stories where scientists explore unknown places, stories where the discovery of such turns the world on its head, stories where we''re struck with the sense of wonder at realizing that we don''t know our world quite as well as we''d thought. Featuring new tales by today''s masters of SF&F: Tobias S. Buckell James L. Cambias Becky Chambers Kate Elliott C.C. Finlay Jeffrey Ford Theodora Goss Darcie Little Badger Jonathan Maberry Seanan McGuire An Owomoyela Dexter Palmer Cadwell Turnbull Genevieve Valentine Carrie Vaughn Charles Yu E. Lily Yu

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." So begins H. P. Lovecraft s essay Supernatural Horror in Literature, arguably the most important analysis of horror ever written. Yet while hordes of writers have created works based on Lovecraft s fiction, never before has an anthology taken its inspiration directly from the literary manifesto behind his entire mythos . . . until now. Like cultists poring over a forbidden tome, 18 modern masters of horror have gathered here to engage with Lovecraft s treatise. Rather than responding with articles of their own, these authors have written new short stories inspired by intriguing quotes from the essay, offering their own whispers to the darkness. They tell of monsters and madmen, of our strange past and our weirder future, of terrors stalking the winter woods, the broiling desert, and eeriest of all, our bustling cities and our family homes. This collection is a unique contribution to the booming Lovecraft/Cthulhu craze that will stand out from the pack due to its one-of-a-kind premise."

A fable, a nightmare, a vision, a mystery -- superbly rich imaginative fiction at its best. New York, 1893, and society portrait painter Piero Piambo feels his artistic ambition waning, even while he immortalizes the city''s nouveaux riches in oil paints. But then he receives a bizarre and lucrative commission, to paint the mysterious Mrs Charbuque. The catch is that he is not allowed to see her, and so Piambo sits before a screen as his sitter tells him of her life, dreams, and fears -- clues from which he must divine her visage. As he works, a series of murders plagues the city -- deaths that at first seem accidental. And, as Piambo''s masterpiece takes shape, his relationship with Mrs Charbuque grows ever more tangled...while her deranged husband becomes hellbent on some inexplicable vengeance.

Arnaquer des riches crédules en organisant chez eux des séances de spiritisme est une chose, être soi-même la victime d''une sorte d''hallucination inexplicable en est une autre. Schell, illusionniste de talent, bien placé pour être le plus sceptique des hommes, a pourtant bien vu dans le reflet d''une baie vitrée l''image d''une fillette disparue. Fantôme ? Hallucination ? Mauvaise farce ? Dans l''Amérique en crise puritaine et hypocrite de la prohibition et alors qu''en Europe les thèses nazies donnent de la voix, Schell, accompagné d''un immigré mexicain de dix-sept ans et d''un ancien hercule de foire, refuse de trancher et décide de retrouver l''enfant. Pouvait-il imaginer qu''il allait, par sa curiosité, heurter de plein fouet un monde obscur et terrifiant ?...

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