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TOMOE GOZEN SAGA: THE DISFAVORED HERO. California: Pacific Warriors, 1999. First Thus. Large trade paperback. Also a 500 copy limited edition hardcover. Illustrated by Wendy Wees. Tale of a woman samurai in Naipon, the alternate-world Japan.Tomoe Gozen (Ace Books, 1988) had been my first novel and I was so deliriously happy to have a supportive editor that it never even occurred to my then-naive self to protect the text, which was considerably mangled in the editor's office, and I didn't see the mess until it was already a published book.
Pacific Warriors provided me with a new edition with the original title restored, and the text both restored and revised. There are four printings of the Ace edition floating around out there, but only the Pacific Warriors edition is the definitive text.
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Limited HARDCOVER, signed by author & artist: $59.99 postpaid
JOHN COLLIER AND FREDRIC BROWN WENT QUARRELLING THROUGH MY HEAD. Buffalo, NY: Weirdbook Press, 1989. First edition trade paperback with dustjacket having wraparound art by Tony Patrick. Also a Limited Edition hardcover. Interior illustrations by Tony Patrick, an Arkham House illustrator, As New. Illustrated by Tony Patrick.Collects: "The Trilling Princess" (honorable mention in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror First Annual Collection, 1988), "Pit" "The Fabulous Sea Below" "Biology Class" "Precisely What Happened" "Wander" "The Clown" "Beckoner of the Nightwatch" "Patrons" "I Can't Lose!" "The Truth About Mrs. Chauncey and Her Television Set" "Under the House" "Come the Eaters" "Carmanda" "Voice" "The Evil Jinn" "Five Cents a Look" "The Apple Boy" "Youngin".
New stories: "The Two Devils" "The Rental Agreement" "The Day the Slaves were Freed" "None" "Quadrivial" "The Garbage Dispose-All" "Angela's Love" and "A Haunted Tale of Justice" this last as well as "The Evil Jinn" available here online to read for free. Notes.
Trade Paperback SIGNED by the author: $15.00 postpaid
Limited Hardcover, SIGNED by author: $35.00 postpaid
Limited Hardcover, SIGNED by author: $35.00 postpaid
THE DEEP MUSEUM: GHOST STORIES OF A MELANCHOLIC. British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover limited to 500 copies. As New in dustjacket.Predominantly "tales of ghosts and discouragement," these range from Jessica's Northwest Mythos tale "The Hounds of the Hearth" (first published by Rosemary Pardoe's The Haunted Library) to an homage to Robert Aickman "The House that Knew No Hate" (from the World Fantasy Award winning anthology Architecture of Fear), to such highly personal ghost stories as "The Apartment," "Autumn Guest," "The Toad Witch" and "The Phantom Ship," to a ghostly homage to Sarah Orne Jewett, "A Mirror for Eyes of Winter," and the Christmas horror of "Jeremiah."
There's also a sub-section called Legends of Old America, from "Ghoul John and the Corpse" an all too true tale of the Columbia River, to the bayou witchcraft tale of a completely different John, "John and the Magic Skillet," and collects in one place all the extant investigations of Penelope Pettiweather, ghost detective, including "The Woman Who Turned To Soap" that was also adapted as a play, and "The Queen Mum" about a disturbing immortality.
There are two other small subsections. The surreal and mysterious "Forsaken Reliquary: A Catalog of Imaginary Lithographic Tints" includes such pieces as "A Midnight Ride in the Garden of Abominnation" and "Mice Bear Dreams out of Twilight," plus a selection of lyric verse of the Sarah Teasdale type but entirely about ghosts, under the heading "Bone Wings." For the few who just went, "oh my god no, not poems!" they don't take up much room, and even without these 36 little pieces, the collection itself is humongous, bringing together 29 short stories and novelettes, plus an introduction many should find as disturbing as are any of the fictions. Douglas Walters has done the superb color jacket illustrating "The Hounds of the Hearth."
A few of these pieces have never been published before, others are gathered from diverse periodicals and anthologies. Many had honorable mentions in the leading Year's Best compilations, while "In the Looking Glass, Life is Death" and "Walk in Sable" were selected for inclusion in Datlow and Windling's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
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THE DARK TALES. Wales: Sarob Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover limited to 225 copies. As new in dustjacket. SIGNED by Jessica.These tales are all set in the same sinister otherworld: "Hode of the High Place" "The One Great Achievement of Padrine Luil" "Wrath of the Ebon Knights" "Winged Llama of the Mesa" "The Revelations and Pursuits of Timith Son of Timith" "A Rain of Spiders" "The Black Desert of Gomba Mo" "The Ravaging in the Dell" "Meadow Silence" "The Assassin's Foe" "The Entity from Before Creation" "The Piebald Man" and "Nitimandrey and the Cabinetmaker's Vision."
Released in limited edition from the Welsh specialty publisher Sarob Press, a collection of gloomy, appalling, downbeat and Decadent high fantasy tales inspired by Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, William Morris, and broadly by the English Decadence.
Wraparound dustwrapper by Lara Bandilla captures the darkness of the stories, and appears to have been inspired by Steve Fabian. There is an Afterword about how or why such relentlessly cruel and possibly sick stories came to be written.
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMAZONS: WOMEN WARRIORS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MODERN ERA. New York: Paragon House, 1991. First Edition. As-New in dustwrapper. SIGNED by author.A comprehensive compendium of female swordswomen & combatants through the ages, whether mythic, folkloric, literary, or entirely historical, ancient, medieval, & modern.
Arranged alphabetically by individuals names, there are over 1,000 entries from Aba the warrior daughter of Xenophanes, to Zoulvisia the legendary warrior heroine of Armenia.
Coverage includes ancient Amazons, Maenads, Valkyries, medieval warrior queens, lady pirates, guerilla fighters, & violent goddesses.
It draws on Native American history & folklore, Wild West lore, Middle and Far Eastern history, Chinese, Japanese, & Southeast Asian history & myth, European history & myth from Scandinavian to Mediterranean nations, fighting heroines of old South & Central America, all the way up to modern age resistance fighters and armed rebels around the world.
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