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The Best of Jeffrey Ford
| Author: | Jeffrey Ford |
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PS Publishing, 2020 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
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 window on a new world, this book is for you. Within these pages, you ll visit with the mythic jinmenkins of Japan (dogs with human heads), the great poet of Amherst, Emily Dickinson, the Beautiful Gelreesh, a monster of sympathy, a young man who suffers from a rare form of synaesthesia, Stoodtladdle, the enormous flea mayor of Exo-skeleton town, and Charon, the boatman of Hell. You will travel to strange locales a bottled city, under the bottom of the lake, the Hotel Lacrimose, and the Idiot Planet. In the words of Joyce Carol Oates: Jeffrey Ford is a beautifully disorienting writer, a poet in an unclassifiable genre his own.
This volume includes an entirely new tale (Mr. Sacrobatus), an eloquent note on each story, and brilliant header sketchesby Derek Ford, the noted fantastic artist and son of Jeffrey Ford.
Table of Contents:
- The Best of Jeffrey Ford • interior artwork by Derek Ford
- 3 • The Blameless • (2016) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 21 • Word Doll • (2015) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 37 • Daltharee • (2008) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 49 • Creation • (2002) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 63 • Daddy Long Legs of the Evening • (2011) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 75 • 86 Deathdick Road • (2010) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 93 • The Beautiful Gelreesh • (2003) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 103 • Under the Bottom of the Lake • (2007) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 117 • The Honeyed Knot • (2001) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 135 • Exo-Skeleton Town • (2000) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- 161 • The Angel Seems • (2012) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 175 • The Night Whiskey • (2006) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- 203 • The Seventh Expression of the Robot General • (2008) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 213 • Blood Drive • (2012) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 227 • The Dismantled Invention of Fate • (2008) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- 247 • Bright Morning • (2002) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- 273 • At Raparata • short fiction by Jeffrey Ford
- 305 • The Dreaming Wind • (2007) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 323 • Boatman's Holiday • (2005) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 341 • A Man of Light • (2005) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 367 • A Terror • (2013) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- 397 • Mount Chary Galore • (2014) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- 419 • The Emperor of Ice Cream • short fiction by Jeffrey Ford
- 451 • A Natural History of Autumn • (2012) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 469 • Relic • [Thackery T. Lambshead] • (2011) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- 495 • The Annals of Eelin-Ok • (2004) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
- 519 • Mr. Sacrobatus • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
- 531 • Stories Notes (The Best of Jeffrey Ford) • essay by Jeffrey Ford
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