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All:

  Novels & Novellas

  • Green Eyes (New York: Berkley, 1984)
  • Life During Wartime (New York: Bantam, 1987)
  • The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter (Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1988)
  • The Father of Stones (Baltimore, MD.: Washington Science Fiction Association, 1988)
  • Kalimantan (London: Century, 1990)
  • The Golden (Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1993)
  • The Last Time (Mission Viejo, CA: A.S.A.P., 1995)
  • Valentine (New York: Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2002)
  • Aztechs (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2003)
  • Colonel Rutherford’s Colt (North Bend, WA: ElectricStory.com, 2001; Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2003)
  • Louisiana Breakdown (Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2003)
  • Floater (Harrowgate, England: PS Publishing, Sept 2003)
  • Liar’s House (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2004)
  • A Handbook of American Prayer (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2004)
  • Viator (Portland, OR: Night Shade Books, 2004)
  • Trujillo (Portland, OR: Night Shade Books, 2005)
  • Softspoken (Portland, OR: Night Shade Books, 2007)
  • The Taborin Scale (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010) (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010)
  • Beautiful Blood  [forthcoming in English, printed in French]
 
Collections
 
  • The Jaguar Hunter (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1987)
  • Nantucket Slayrides: Three Short Novels (with Robert Frazier) (Nantucket, MA: Eel Grass Press, 1989)
  • The Ends of the Earth (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1991)
  • Sports & Music (Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1994)
  • Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories (London: Orion, 1997); also published as Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999)
  • Two Trains Running (Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2004)
  • Trujillo and Other Stories (Harrowgate, England: PS Publishing, 2004)
  • Eternity and Other Stories (New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005)
  • Dagger Key and Other Stories (Harrowgate, England: PS Publishing, 2007)
  • The Best of Lucius Shepard (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008)
  • Skull City and Other Lost Stories (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008)
  • Vacancy & Ariel (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2009)
  • Viator Plus (Harrowgate, England: PS Publishing, 2009)
  • The Dragon Griaule, (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2012)
  • Five Autobiographies and a Fiction, (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2013)
 
Short Fiction
 
  • “The Taylorsville Reconstruction,” Universe 13, ed. Terry Carr, 1983
  • “Solitario’s Eyes,” F&SF, Sept 1983
  • “Salvador,” F&SF, April 1984
  • “The Etheric Transmitter,” The Clarion Awards, ed. Damon Knight, 1984
  • “Black Coral,” Universe 14, ed. Terry Carr, 1984
  • “A Traveler’s Tale,” Asimov’s, July 1984
  • “The Storming of Annie Kinsale,” Asimov’s, Sept 1984
  • “The Night of White Bhairab,” F&SF, Oct 1984
  • “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,” F&SF, Dec 1984
  • “Reaper,” Asimov’s, Dec 1984
  • “The End of Life as We Know It,” Asimov’s, Jan 1985
  • “How the Wind Spoke at Madaket,” Asimov’s, April 1985
  • “The Jaguar Hunter,” F&SF, May 1985
  • “Mengele,” Universe 15, ed. Terry Carr, 1985
  • “The Fundamental Things,” Asimov’s, July 1985
  • “ . . . How My Heart Breaks When I Sing This Song . . .,” Asimov’s, Dec 1985
  • “A Spanish Lesson,” F&SF, Dec 1985
  • “Fire Zone Emerald,” Playboy, Feb 1986
  • “R & R,” Asimov’s, April 1986
  • “Aymara,” Asimov’s, Aug 1986
  • “The Arcevoalo,” F&SF, Oct 1986
  • “Voyage South from Thousand Willows,” Universe 16 ed. Terry Carr, 1986
  • “Dancing It All Away at Nadoka,” Asimov’s, Mid-Dec 1986
  • “Delta Sly Honey,” Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, Oct 1987
  • “Shades,” Asimov’s, Dec 1987
  • “The Glassblower’s Dragon,” F&SF, April 1987
  • “The Sun Spider,” Asimov’s, April 1987
  • “The Exercise of Faith,” Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1987
  • “The Black Clay Boy,” Whispers VI, ed. Stuart David Schiff, 1987
  • “On the Border,” Asimov’s, Aug 1987
  • “The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter,” Asimov’s, Sept 1988
  • “Life of Buddha,” Omni, May 1988
  • “Jack’s Decline,” Ripper! eds. Susan Casper, Gardner Dozois, 1988
  • “Nomans Land,” Asimov’s, Oct 1988
  • “A Wooden Tiger,” F&SF, Oct 1988
  • “Youthful Folly,” Omni, Nov 1988
  • “The Way It Sometimes Happens,” Asimov’s, Dec 1988
  • “The Ends of the Earth,” F&SF, March 1989
  • “Chango,” Ice River #4, 1989
  • “Surrender,” Asimov’s, Aug 1989
  • “The Father of Stones,” Asimov’s, Sept 1989
  • “Bound For Glory,” F&SF, Oct 1989
  • “The All-Consuming,” (with Robert Frazier), Playboy, July 1990
  • “Skull City,” Asimov’s, July 1990
  • “Sports in America,” Playboy, July 1991
  • “A Little Night Music,” Omni, March 1992
  • “Victory,” Omni, May 1992
  • “Barnacle Bill the Spacer,” Asimov’s, July 1992
  • “Beast of the Heartland,” Playboy, Sept 1992
  • “All the Perfumes of Araby,” Best of Omni Science Fiction 2, ed. Ellen Datlow, 1992
  • “A Personal Matter,” (excerpt from The Golden) Amazing Stories, July 1993
  •  untitled short (“The Ziesing Family”), Ziesing Books Catalog #106, 1993
  • “The Last Time,” Little Deaths, ed. Ellen Datlow, 1994
  • “Human History,” 21st Annual World Fantasy Convention program book, ed. Stephen P. Brown, Baltimore Gun Club, L.L.C., 1995
  • “Pizza Man,” Playboy, Sept 1996
  • “Crocodile Rock,” F&SF, Oct 1999
  • “Radiant Green Star,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, Aug 2000
  • “Romance of the Century”, GORP, Nov 2000
  • “Sparring Partner,” Playboy, March 2001
  • “Eternity and Afterward,” F&SF, March 2001
  • “Aztechs,” SciFiction, Sept 2001
  • “Over Yonder,” SciFiction, Jan 2002
  • “Emerald Street Expansions,” SciFiction, March 2002
  • “How Lonesome Heartbreak Changed His Life,” Beast of the Heartland (eBook), ElectricStory.com, June 2000; (print), Polyphony 1, ed. Deborah Layne, Aug 2002
  • “The Drive-In Puerto Rico,” F&SF, Oct/Nov 2002
  • “Señor Volto,” SciFiction, Feb, 2003
  • “Only Partly Here,” Asimov’s, March 2003
  • “The Same Old Story,”  Polyphony 2, ed. Deborah Layne, April 2003
  • “Carlos Manson Lives,” [as by Sally Carteret], Polyphony 2, ed. Deborah Layne, 2003
  • “After Ildiko,” The Silver Gryphon, eds. Gary Turner, Marty Halpern, May 2003
  • “Jailwise,”  SciFiction, June 2003
  • “Handsome, Winsome Johnny,” [as by Sally Carteret], Polyphony 3, eds. Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, 2003
  • “A Walk in the Garden,”  SciFiction, Aug 2003
  • “Limbo,” The Dark, ed. Ellen Datlow, Oct 2003
  • “Nine Electric Flowers,” [as by Sally Carteret], Polyphony 3, eds. Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, 2003
  • “Ariel,” Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2003
  • “The Park Sweeper,” The Third Alternative 36, Nov 2003
  • “Liar’s House,” SciFiction, Dec 2003
  • “Jailbait,” Two Trains Running, 2004
  • “Hands Up! Who Wants to Die?,” Night Visions 11, ed. Bill Sheehan, May 2004
  • “The Blackpool Ascensions,” Polyphony 4, eds. Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, Sept 2004
  • “The ‘Velt,” Amazon Shorts, July 2005
  • “Abimagique,” SciFiction, Aug 2005
  • “The Emperor,” SciFiction, Aug 2005
  • “The Lepidopterist,” Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy, eds. Ellen Datlow, Teri Windling, Oct 2006
  • “Chinandega,” The Solaris Book of New Fantasy, ed. George Mann, 2007
  • “Dinner at Baldasarro’s,” Postscripts, Spring 2007, eds. Pete Crowther, Nick Gevers, March 2007
  • “Dead Money,” Asimov’s, April/May 2007
  • “Stars Seen Through Stone,” F&SF, July 2007
  • “Vacancy,” Subterranean Magazine, Issue # 7, ed. Ellen Datlow, 2007
  • “Dagger Key,” Dagger Key and Other Stories, Sept 2007
  • “Larissa Miusov,” Eclipse One”, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Oct 2007
  • “The Ease With Which We Freed the Beast,” Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dec 2007
  • “Kirikh’quru Krokundor,” Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Ellen Datlow, 2009
  • “Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life,” Other Earths, eds. Nick Gevers, Jay Lake, 2009
  • “Sylgarmo’s Proclamation,” Songs of the Dying Earth, eds. Gardner Dozois, George R. R. Martin, Aug 2009
  • “Halloween Town”, F&SF, Oct/Nov 2009
  • “Dream Burgers at the Mouth of Hell,” The Book of Dreams, ed. Nick Gevers, Jan 2010
  • “The Flock,” The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People, ed. Ellen Datlow, April 2010
  • “The Company He Keeps” Postscripts#22/23, ed. Peter Crowther, Nick Gevers,      Sept 2010
  • “Slice of Life,” Teeth, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terry Windling, April 2011
  • “Ditch Witch,” Supernatural Noir, ed. Ellen Datlow, June, 2011
  • “The Skinny Girl,” Naked City, ed. Ellen Datlow, July 2011
  • “Rose Street Attractors,”  Ghosts by Gaslight, ed. Jack Dann, Nick Gevers, Sept 2011  
  • “The Skull,” Le Dragon Griaule, l’integrale, Sept 2011 

Verse
 
  • “Cantata of Death, Weakmind & Generation,” (Chapel Hill, NC: Lillabulero Press, 1967)
  • “Challenger as Viewed from the Westerbrook Bar,” IASFM, Oct 1986
  • “White Trains,” Night Cry, Spring 1987
  • “Pictures Made of Stones,” Omni, Sept 1987 

Graphic Media
  • Moon Flying, A2 Productions, 1978
  • Vermillion #1-12, DC/Helix, Oct 1996-Sept 1997
  • Gangland #2, “Platinum Nights”, DC/Vertigo, 1998
  • Flinch: Vol.1, #15, “Watchful”, DC/Vertigo, Nov 2000

Selected Nonfiction
 
  • “How I Spent My Summer Vacation: A Student Perspective on Clarion,” IASFM, Feb. 1985
  • “Waiting for the Barbarians,” Journal Wired, Winter 1989
  • “Remedial Reading for the Generation of Swine,” Journal Wired, Spring 1990
  • “ Stark Raving: George Bush and the Pineapple of Doom,” Journal Wired, Summer/Fall 1990
  • “Read This,” The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 1991
  • “Introduction,” Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two, ed. David Garnett, 1989
  • “Incident in the Petén,” Chronicles of the Mutant Rain Forest, Horror’s Head Press, 1992
  • “Avram Davidson 1923-1993,” Nebula Awards 29, ed. Pamela Sargent, 1995
  • “An Appreciation of Avram Davidson,” Eidolon, Fall 1996
  • “God Is in the Details,” Paragons, ed. Robin Wilson, 1996
  • “Introduction,” Going Home Again by Howard Waldrop, 1997
  • “The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium,” Nebula Awards 32, ed. Jack Dann,1998
  • “Afterword,” The Avram Davidson Treasury, ed. Grania Davis,1998
  • “This Space for Advertising,” Event Horizon, Oct 1998
  • “The Millennium Cucaracha,” Event Horizon,  Jan 1999
  • “The Littleton Follies,” Event Horizon, May 1999
  • “Lee Christmas and Machine Gun Guy Molony,” the Nation, Dec, 2003 (?)
  • “Weapons of Mass Seduction” [essay collection/film reviews], Wheatland Press, eds. Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, 2005
  • “With Christmas in Honduras” [forthcoming]
 
Props to Bruce Chrumka for putting this together!

Other bibliographic links:

​The Internet Science Fiction Database