Michael Shea

• Nov-1982
• / Fantasy
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• Sep-1984
• / Fantasy
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There was something in that lake that was not of this world. A color, indescribable, outside the spectrum, impressed itself upon the eyes and minds of all who approached... and utter evil haunted the vicinity. This is a novel that H. P. Lovecraft...

• Dec-1985
• / Fantasy
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A student of ancient lore, Bramt Hex abandons his ivory tower to seek fame and fortune and discovers that his quest has become a desperate battle for survival as he searches for the secret of immortality in Yana...

• Sep-1990
• / Horror
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In Polyphemus, an exploration team on a desert planet encounters a terrifying alien monstrosity. The Angel of Death is the story of a serial killer hunting innocent women who turns out to be a visitor from another world. In the blackly humorous horro...

• Feb-1996
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-1997
• / General Fiction
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The foreign embassies have moved from Bonn to Berlin. Caught in a range of tensions and negotiations, the British Ambassador and his Head of Chancery are forced into an alliance to maintain the compromises between internal rivalries and external cris...

• Oct-1997
• / Fantasy
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Shipwrecked en route to their new job working in the perilous Costard sap mine, Nifft the Lean and his partner, Barnar Hammer-Hand, join forces with Bunt, who offers them a lucrative reward if they can bring him some of the precious fluid from the mi...

• Sep-1999
• / General Fiction
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Michael Shea again uses his inimitable behind-the-scenes knowledge of government and political machinations to give us a gripping new thriller. There is something very wrong with the Prime Minister of Britain. He's fatally ill with a mysterious disea...

• May-2000
• / Fantasy
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THIS TIME, THEY WOULD MAKE A KILLING Join master thief Nifft the Lean with his companion-atarms, mighty barbarian Barnar Hammer-Hand, as they trust to their wits and their luck. Once Nifft and Barnar were hired by the ghost of a dead woman to kidn...

• May-2000
• / Suspense
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Pro-Nazi activities from long ago have led to a new, terrifying American policy under the sinister American Firsters. Can a Foreign Office investigation unmask a powerful figure in Washington and discover the real fate of Hitler and Eva Braun?...

• Oct-2000
• / Fantasy
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PROSPEROUS HAGIA'S VAULTS BRIMMED WITH GOLD. HER WAREHOUSES BULGED WITH THE GOODS OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS. SHE HAD THE SPIDER-GOD TO THANK FOR HER PROSPERITY. But beneath Hagia's ancient bargain with the A'Rak lay the direst danger. Th...

• Jan-2001
• / Thriller
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The 1970s: ""the Norsemen"" is a mysterious union made up of northern businessmen from Scotland and Scandinavia. No-one knows where their sympathies -- political or otherwise -- lie, although they are thought to be well-intentioned. But when the unio...

• Jun-2002
• / Thriller
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Britain is on the brink of collapse: law and order has broken down; extremist vigilante gangs loyal to the Commander and the Brother roam the streets; food is scarce; the Government is helpless; no one is safe. Into this bleak and violent world comes...

• Jun-2002
• / Thriller
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After the explosion of a radio transmitter in Scotland, the Bondi, a giant American telecommunications corporation, attempt a political coup. Ministers are seized and a puppet government installed as a front for Bondi. However, not everyone accepts t...

• Sep-2004
• / Horror
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A gruesome collection of stories delves into the mysterious creatures and dark forces that lurk in the shadows, featuring contributions from such noted horror authors as Don Tumasonis, Lee Thomas, Mark Samuels, and Joseph A. Ezzo. Original....

• Nov-2008
• / Horror
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Michael Shea has demonstrated an unnerving facility for the macabre, the cerebral, and the whimsical, and he possesses the deceptively effortless ability to conjure scenes of horror and dread leavened by sly humor. Over 590 pages long, this collec...

• Nov-2009
• / Horror
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Rocked by the gentle sea, the City sleeps; but its dreams are not its own...

With eight psychotropic visions of damnation and transformation in the urban coral reef of San Francisco, COPPING SQUID forms a mosaic of otherworldly menace shot through ...

• Feb-2010
• / Thriller
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Books and films have skewered Hollywood's excesses, but none has ever portrayed one man's crazy vision of the future of big action/adventure films as The Extra does. As over-the-top as Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles, as savagely dark as Robert Altman's...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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You love Dungeons and Dragons. As an experienced dungeon master you've run dozens, if not hundreds of games. You put a lot of work into making your games great. What if there's another way to look at how you prepare your game? What if it turned out y...

• Aug-2013
• / Dystopian
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Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy has brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which L.A. may be the worst. Curtis, Japh, and J...

• Sep-2016
• / Science Fiction
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Michael Shea (1946-2014) was one of the most distinguished, respected, and beloved figures in the fields of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He won two World Fantasy Awards, and his Nifft the Lean series of fantasy adventure novels attracted ...

• Oct-2018
• / Horror
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For more than thirty years, Michael Shea has been making his own distinctive contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos devised by H. P. Lovecraft -- an entire universe of gods and monsters that hundreds of writers have imitated. But Shea has done a lot mor...

• Jan-2020
• / Dark Fantasy
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By dint of a mispronounced spell, Cugel the Clever finds himself once again unceremoniously dumped by a winged demon onto the bleak far northern shores of the Sea of Cutz -- the location of a fierce battle aeons past between the archmagician Sim...

• Aug-2021
• / Horror
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Early in his career, Michael Shea wrote the Lovecraftian novel The Color out of Time (1984). He subsequently wrote some of the most scintillating and gripping tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in contemporary weird fiction, including Fat Face and Copping S...

• Jul-2022
• / Horror
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From as early as the 1970s, Michael Shea (1946-2014) distinguished himself as one of the most compelling writers of weird fiction of his generation. Now that his classic story The Autopsy has been adapted for television for Guillermo del Toro's Cabin...

• Jul-2024
• / Horror
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Something strange is going on at the Quicksilver Mine in central California. Dead bodies are being dumped there; strange sounds and smells are emanating from its black depths. As increasingly bizarre phenomena occur in the area around the mine, peopl...

• / Thriller
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American academic Martin Ness is on sabbatical in Romania, but why -- when he's researching nineteenth-century history -- does he find himself being followed, even when he returns to London?...

• / General Fiction
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When two bodies are discovered in an abandoned car at the border of East and West Berlin, the German press dismisses the case as a crime of passion. British Security, hearing of the story, is aware of the connection with their top-secret Sonntag oper...

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• / General Fiction
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