Michael Shea

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1982
  • Latest Book:
    July 2022
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Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Nifft the Lean

  • The Color out of Time

    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...

  • In Yana, the Touch of Undying

    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...

  • Polyphemus

    In the title story Polyphemus, an exploration team on a desert planet faces death when it encounters a terrifying alien monstrosity. In The Angel of Death, a serial killer who has a city on edge may finally have met his match in the form of a powerfu...

  • The British Ambassador

  • Berlin Embassy

    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...

  • The Mines of Behemoth

    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...

  • Spinoff

    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...

  • The Incompleat Nifft

    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...



  • Shadows Fall

    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?...

  • The A'Rak

    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...

  • Cold Conspiracy

    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...

  • Break Point

    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...

  • Endgame

    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...

  • Incident Report

    in A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror

    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....

  • The Autopsy and Other Tales

    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...

  • Copping Squid and Other Mythos Tales

    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 ...

  • The Extra

    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...

  • The Lazy Dungeon Master

    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...



  • Assault on Sunrise

    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...

  • And Death Shall Have No Dominion

    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 ...

  • Demiurge

    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...

  • A Quest for Simbilis

    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...

  • Mr. Cannyharme

    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...

  • The Autopsy

    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...

  • The Danube Enigma

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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?...

  • The Iron Veil

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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...

  • Spin Doctor

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  • State of the Nation

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Award-Winning Books by Michael Shea

Nifft the Lean
1983 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Michael Shea has published 29 books.

Michael Shea does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Autopsy, was published in July 2022.

The first book by Michael Shea, Nifft the Lean, was published in November 1982.

No. Michael Shea does not write books in series.
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