John Shirley

• Dec-2025
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• Oct-2025
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A grieving father, a brutal overdose, a silver revolver-and nothing left to lose.Slim Purdoux was once just another ex-con trying to go straight. After doing time in Texas for drugs, he landed a miracle job as a book editor in San Francisco. But fate...

• Aug-2024
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Civil War veteran Cleve Trewe locks horns with a ruthless cattleman who's hungry for land, thirsty for power -- and out for blood . . . BLOOD IN SWEET RIVER After a long, hard journey west, Cleve Trewe is ready to settle down. He's got his beautiful ...

• Dec-2023
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Unleash Your Inner Rebel with Forbidden Futures #11: Your Gateway to the World of Punk Literature! Dive headfirst into a realm of literary rebellion with Forbidden Futures #11: the ultimate key to unlocking the captivating kaleidoscope of punk subgen...

• Oct-2023
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Some argue existence is an exercise in futility. They claim there are no winners in life. Ultimately, we are insignificant in the face of vast cosmic intelligences that were old when the Universe began.The best minds gibber at the incomprehensibility...

• Aug-2023
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The latest in a thrilling new western series from John Shirley, the acclaimed author of Prairie Fire, Kansas.  FOLLOW THE LEADER -- OR MEET YOUR MAKER   They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. But it's hard to know what's g...

• Jun-2023
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A routine rescue mission leaves a team of US soldiers, rescued hostages and a prisoner trapped above Earth in a suborbital craft, in this cinematic action-packed near-future thriller, perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Carr"This is the kind of b...

• Oct-2022
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The first book in a thrilling new western series from John Shirley, the acclaimed co-author of the Sundown Riders western series. GOLD FEVER. BLOOD FEVER.    From the battlefield of Shiloh to the prisoner camp at Slocum, former Union soldie...

• Nov-2021
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Zero is a young film maker who believes his whole life and career are mapped out before him. That is, until the night he and his friends walk into a rock club ... and are caught in a dazzling trap that spans worlds.They are dropped onto a dreamlike p...

• Jun-2021
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For decades, John Shirley has been a leading author of weird fiction, with an impressively wide range. His work stretches from science fiction to supernatural horror to psychological terror and everything in between. Here, in two new and unpublished ...

• Apr-2021
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They call it Stormland: a sprawling, largely abandoned region of the southeastern coast of the USA, where climate change’s extreme weather conditions have brought about a “perfect storm” of perpetual tempests; where hurricane-st...

• Dec-2020
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A cattle drive faces long odds in this exciting new installment in Ralph Compton's Trail Drive series.   An outbreak of hostilities with Comanches has disrupted the usual trail routes. But Mase Durst must get his cows from his Texas ranch to the...

• Nov-2020
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In this roller-coaster new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton's Sundown Riders series, a young cowhand faces a trial by fire on his way to a new home and an old love. Fresh from a successful trail drive, cattle hand Seth Coe is fe...

• Aug-2020
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In this exciting new Ralph Compton western, a man without a memory meets an unforgettable ally: the one and only Bat Masterson. Riding into the town of Smoky River on a mangy mule, Dane looks as broken down as his old mount. His Stetson is ragged,...

• Aug-2016
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Acclaimed novelist John Shirley has written novels and tales that span the spectrum of imaginative literature, from science fiction to psychological terror to supernatural horror. One of the writers that inspired him to become a writer was H. P. Love...

• Nov-2015
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This collection of gritty and intense short stories compares the horrors of the real world to those of the supernatural. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year....

• Nov-2015
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Saturday night in sleepy ultraconservative Salton, Oregon has turned terrifying. For thirteen weeks a killer has struck and a young woman has been viciously murdered. With all-American gumption and a lack of concern of legal niceties, the town has ta...

• Nov-2014
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Centuries before the Human-Covenant War would rage across the galaxy, a similar conflict erupted between the Prophets and the Elites -- two alien races at odds over the sacred artifacts left by the powerful Forerunners, who disappeared eons ago. Alth...

• Aug-2014
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Author John Shirley turns his pen to the Wild West and the legendary Wyatt Earp! WYATT IN WICHITA fuses historical fact with fiction, following the adventures of the young Wyatt Earp. Following the tragic loss of his first wife in the Missouri of ...

• Aug-2014
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The world is at war against things that slink and gibber in the darkness, and titans that stride from world to world, sewing madness and death. War has existed in one form or another since the dawn of human civilization, and before then, Elder terror...

• Jun-2014
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Further explore the world of Watch Dogs with a new story, an entirely digital novel project created inside Ubisoft in collaboration with John Shirley, prolific author and pioneer of the cyberpunk movement John Shirley naturally transcribed...

• Feb-2014
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The second volume in a thrilling new Lovecraftian horror anthology series featuring spine-tingling tales from Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Shirley, and moreEditor S.T. Joshi has assembled 18 brand-new stories of cosmic mayhem and terror, by Jason V...

• Jan-2014
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Desire can take any form, can become any fantasy... but it must be fed with life. When a strange woman appears in a small coastal California town, death follows. Only Corey -- in love with the beautiful, intelligent, quiet Angela who seems unable to ...

• Jan-2014
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The kind of originality that conventional science fiction is reluctant to welcome: a visionary adventure. In the near future, the human race is facing an intolerable population crisis and impending global conflict. Devastating war and vast destructio...

• Nov-2013
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There once was a man who lived a life so strange, it had to be true. Only he could see what no one else can: the darkness inside, the real monster within. And he's the one who must stop them. This is his calling. This is his duty. This is the life...

• Oct-2013
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An original novel set in the universe of the award-winning video game! The Borderlands cannot be conquered! Mordecai and Daphne have gotten themselves in a tough spot near the highly dangerous town of Gunsight, one of the most remote outposts on the ...

• Oct-2013
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One of the darkest, edgiest, boldest writers around, John Shirley lays down an adrenalized yet artful prose that fairly skids across the page, dragging the reader along into shadowed corners of terror and desire. Yet while it's thrilling, there's psy...

• Oct-2013
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From award-winning author John Shirley comes an inventive whodunit featuring the master of mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. When Nicholas Fogg, an unsuccessful private investigator, dies on the job, he learns that the afterlife is not what he ex...

• Jul-2013
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Mixing outlaw humor, SF adventure, and cutting social criticism, Shirley draws upon his entire arsenal of narrative and commentary. The title essay, "New Taboos" is his prescription for a radical revisioning of America. A new novella, A State of Impr...

• Jul-2013
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• The brain infection known as the Zombie vs Robots prose program continues with this exclusive, two-part novella from cyberpunk John Shirley (The Crow), wcomplemented with evocative, full-color illustrations of distressing robot-on-zombie vio...

• Apr-2013
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• THE CROW is reborn -- in Tokyo! The spirit of the Crow is back, transfiguring Jamie Osterberg, an American studying in Tokyo and deeply in love with his Japanese girlfriend, Haruko... until the love of his life is stolen! The Crow must onc...

• Sep-2012
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Resident Evil: Retribution in will be released in 3D on September 14, 2012. It is the fifth installment in the massively successful Resident Evil film series, based on the hugely popular Capcom survival horror video game series Re...

• Sep-2012
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Everyone already knows that. But the General of an army of Psycho Soldiers takes on this planetary hell headfirst, planning to enslave all of the Borderlands. And that General . . . is a Goddess. The General Goddess, Gynella, is a cunning maniac who ...

• Apr-2012
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The guerilla war against the Second Alliance and its plans for a European apartheid intensifies in this second volume of John Shirley's A Song Called Youth trilogy. From its beginning, thwarting the Second Alliance has been the first priority of the ...

• Apr-2012
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• In a near-future dystopia, a limited nuclear strike has destroyed portions of Europe, bringing the remaining nation-cities under control of the Second Alliance, a frighteningly fundamentalist international security corporation with designs o...

• Feb-2012
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• Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad. Freedom has peculiarities other than its odd name: the local mayor's ideas of "decentralization" have left it without normal connections to state or fe...

• Nov-2011
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WHAT KIND OF MAN MAKES A LIVING IN HELL? His name's Roland. Soldier class, a former mercenary, he's on a full-time mission to scrape a living out of the most dangerous planet in the galaxy. Is he qualified? He's well armed, he's ruthless, and h...

• Aug-2011
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In this collection of darkly funny, disquieting stories, John Shirley brings his substantial talent to bear on human morality through the absurd, violent blunderings of his characters. In Extremis features more than twenty of Shirley's most intense s...

• Jul-2011
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It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on busin...

• Jun-2011
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Your favorite award-winning, critically acclaimed, and best-selling authors unite to tell stories set in the Dungeons & Dragons world, filled with desperate dragons and cruel elves, honorable demons and fickle gods, wild magic and the sharpest of st...

• Oct-2010
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Comet Press presents Sick Things: An Anthology of Extreme Creature Horror, a follow-up to the infamous Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror. Sick Things is the ultimate collection of extreme creature horror with 17 deviant and gore-soaked storie...

• Aug-2009
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CLASSIFIED: APPARENT SUPERNATURAL Subject: Gabriel Bleak. Status: Civilian. Paranormal skills: Powerful. Able to manipulate AS energies and communicate with UBEs (e.g. "ghosts" and other entities). Psychological profile: Extremely independent, pot...

• Nov-2008
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Taking the fall for his younger brother, Richard Candle went from being cyber cop to condemned criminal. After four years of UnMinding-, his mind suppressed, his body enslaved-he's released to discover his brother has slipped back into the underworld...

• Nov-2007
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THE FIRST BATTLE BEGINS ... Before Ripley, there was a first encounter. Someone on Earth knew about the aliens. Someone battled them, and survived. Aliens and humans have fought before. When a human spaceship discovers a vast egg-shaped vessel in S...

• May-2007
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• One of the darkest, edgiest, boldest writers around, John Shirley lays down an adrenalized yet artful prose that fairly skids across the page, dragging the reader along into shadowed corners of terror and desire. Yet while it's thrilling, th...

• Apr-2007
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Do you ever think that the human world is hopelessly out of balance, blighted, off track, and the only hope is some kind of apocalypse, some sort of end of the world that would allow the human race a new beginning, a fresh start without...ah...certai...

• Dec-2006
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Tonsell-by-the-Stream, a sleepy little village outside of London, is suddenly swallowed down into the earth through the hellish machinations of an ancient, ominous force. At the behest of an extraordinary supernatural agent -- and in exchange for the...

• Jul-2006
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Who better than Batman to protect the dangerous city of Gotham, where even the cops are crooks? But the latest imminent terror might be too much for the burgeoning Caped Crusader, who is still carving out a place for himself in the minds of Gotham's ...

• Jun-2006
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An ancient evil deep beneath New York City turns subway stations into bloody altars for ritual sacrifice. Monsters made of blood arise from drains, an invisible hellhound devours human flesh, feral children stalk the shadowy streets and make murder a...

• May-2006
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Englishman and amoral occultist John Constantine has been out of sorts lately, disconnected from himself...and this time not from another bender, but quite literally, as his soul is cast adrift during a fouled-up spiritual quest in an Iranian monaste...

• Mar-2006
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Zero is a young film maker who believes his whole life and career are mapped out before him. That is, until the night he and his friends walk into a rock club ... and are caught in a dazzling trap that spans worlds.

They are dropped onto a dreamli...

• Mar-2006
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Erupting on the screen in a blaze of blood and guts in 1987, the film Predator quickly became a favorite, spawning a host of sequels, games, and novels. In Predator: Forever Midnight, John Shirley casts his malevolent eye upon the canon. The year i...

• Sep-2005
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John Shirley takes us on a journey from the mildly bizarre to the downright weird and then some in this, his latest collection of short fiction. The book incorporates some of Shirley's classic stories along with some revised and hard to find material...

• Jul-2005
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Far in the future...an urgent distress signal is received from a classified Union Aerospace Corporation research facility based on Olduvai, Mars -- and is suddenly silenced. Assigned to either contain or quarantine the mysterious threat, a crack stri...

• Jan-2005
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Hidden from mortal eyes are the angels and demons that coexist with mankind ... supernatural beings who seek to influence our lives for better and for worse. Amoral and irreverent renegade occultist and paranormal detective John Constantine is blesse...

• Nov-2003
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In a secret government lab somewhere in Nevada, a young scientist cowers in darkness -- waiting, listening, and calculating his chances of surviving the unspeakable carnage that has left him trapped and alone. Or almost alone. Soon after, a cover...

• Aug-2002
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When Slim Purdoux finds out his son has died from contaminated drugs, his main focus becomes hunting down the dealer who sold the illegal substance, and in the meantime is falsely accused of starting a shooting spree at work....

• Mar-2002
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They can't be real. This is the world of fast food restaurants and childrens' meals with toys that become their own layer of landfill; this is the world of shopping malls and MTV Video Awards and People magazine's Sexiest Man of the Year; this is t...

• Dec-2001
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"...And the Angel with Television Eyes" explores the region where fantasy meets reality. This surreal journey of self-discovery and transformation at once questions the nature of our world, and redefines it in the context of 21st century pop culture ...

• Sep-2001
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• Nov-1999
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CONSPIRACY ... NOT JUST THEORY 2029: The Russians didn't use the big nukes. The ongoing Third World War leaves parts of Europe in ruins. Into the chaos steps the Second Alliance, a multi-national eager to impose its own kind of New World Order. In...

• Jun-1999
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Into a Southern California ripe with the machinations of Hollywood, the lure of drugs, and the slick sheen of sex, comes a nameless, ancient evil, a destroyer that completely ravages its victims body and soul, leaving behind only ... wet bones....

• Jun-1998
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Some nightmares are strangely sweet, unnaturally appealing. Some dark places gleam like onyx, like the sixteen stories in John Shirley's Black Butterflies, stories never before collected, including the award-nominated 'What Would You Do for Love?' Th...

• Oct-1996
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A near-future where technology and ancient spiritual secrets merge into something very strange... something as strange as a silicon embrace. America has suffered ecological breakdown and the Second Civil War. But the balkanization of the U.S. -- alon...

• Jun-1996
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• 1996
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NEVER MESS WITH THE CITY Club owner Stu Cole and rocker Catz Wailen are struggling to keep Stu's club afloat in the face of a Mob harassment. Then they are visited by a strange manifestation ... a brutal avatar of the city of San Francisco, crystall...

• Feb-1993
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• Mar-1990
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IT COULDN'T HAPPENED AGAIN Not in your lifetime, you say. Not in this, the first quarter of the 21st century. If that's what you think, you'd better take another look around. Media manipulation has become mind control ... and mind control, an art....

• 1989
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John Shirley's phenomenal first collection of short stories, Heatseeker's stories were originally published from 1975 through 1988 in a wide range of publications including Oui, The Mississippi Review, and OMNI. Chosen by the Locus Reader's Poll as o...

• Aug-1988
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• May-1988
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The guerilla war against the Second Alliance and its plans for a European apartheid intensifies in this second volume of John Shirley's A Song Called Youth. "Almost anyone could be a fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough....

The moment I saw the letter I felt an ominous sensation. It was addressed to me: Vladmir Horescu. There was nothing really outwardly extraordinary about the letter's envelope. It was of linen paper, hard to find nowadays. Why did I hesitate to open i...

No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does. Although In Darkness Waiting begins in much the same vein as many horror novels (mysterious deaths; a small town invaded by evil; ...