Michael Shea
Publications

STORIES & NOVELLAS

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The Growlimb wins the 2005
World Fantasy Award

Pearls of the Vampire Queen
The Angel of Death
The Autopsy
Polyphemus
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
That Frog
The Horror on the #33
Grunt-12 Test Drive
Creative Coverage, Inc.
Fill It With Regular
Uncle Tuggs
The Extra
The Delivery

Fat Face
I, Said the Fly
Salome
Pick and Grim
Johnny Crack
Tollbooth
Fast Food
Upscale
Pieca Chain
For Every Tatter In Its Mortal Dress
The Rebuke
The Growlimb
Notes

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"Pearls of the Vampire Queen"

Phantasy Digest #3, 1977. Later released as part of _Nifft, The Lean_ and Polyphemus.

Phantasy cover

"The Angel of Death"

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF) August, 1979
Nebula Award Best Novellette finalist (1979) : The Angel of Death

Collected in:
Grotte des Tanzenden Wildes, Werner Fuchs ed., Munchen, Zurich, Knaur Science Fiction, 1982, titled "Der Engel des Todes"

Polyphemus
Jim Turner ed., Sauk City, Arkham House, 1987

Angel of Death Cover

"The Autopsy"

F&SF December, 1980
Nebula Best Novella Award Finalist (1980)
Hugo Award Best Novellette Finalist (1981)

Collected in:
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction
Ed Ferman ed., New York, Charles Scribners, 1982 (hardback); New York, Ace Books, 1983 (paperback)

A Treasury of American Horror Stories
Frank D. McSherry Jr., Charles G. Waugh, and Martin Greenberg eds., New York, Crown Books, 1985

Fifty American Horrors
Martin Greenberg ed., New York, Crown Books, 1986

Dark Descent
David Hartwell ed., New York, Tor Books, 1987

Polyphemus
Jim Turner ed., Sauk City, Arkham House, 1987

The Best Horror From Fantasy and Science Fiction
Ed Ferman and Ann Jordan eds., New York, St. Martin's Press, 1988

Intensive Scare
Karl Wagner ed., New York, DAW Books, 1989

Dark Descent 1: The Colour of Evil
David Hartwell ed., London, Grafton Books, 1990

The Best of Modern Horror
Ed Ferman and Ann Jordan eds., London, Penguin Books, 1990

Dark Descent 1: The Color of Evil
David Hartwell ed., New York, Tor Books, 1991

Outoja Tarinoita 3 (entitled Ruumiinavaus)
Markku Sadelehto ed., Helsinki, Kustannus Oy Jalava, 1991

Aliens Among Us
Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois eds., New York, Ace Books, 2000

Dr. Winters stepped out of the tiny Greyhound station and into the midnight street that smelt of pines and the river, though the street was in the heart of the town.

Best of Modern Horror cover

But then, it was a town of only five main streets in breadth, and these extended scarcely a mile and a half along the rim of the gorge.

Deep in that gorge though the river ran, its blurred roar flowed, perfectly distinct, between the banks of dark shop windows. The station's window showed the only light, save for a luminous clock face several doors down and a little neon beer logo... READ MORE at GOOGLE PRINT

Californian Michael Shea often mixes science fiction with horror in his writings to produce (paradoxically) literate, rational terror.

His novel Nifft the Lean (1982) is set in the future, yet it is a horrific future. "The Autopsy" uses a similar mix of sf and horror.

This story-in which Dr. Carl Winters, a fifty-seven-year-old pathologist, arrives at a mountain town to perform autopsies on the victims of a suspicious mining explosion-is about the business of death; and so be warned that it is in some ways a grim tale.

However, it is ultimately a positive, even touching story. You won't soon forget Dr. Winters and what he finds in a defunct ice plant on the edge of the town known as Bailey.

Finnish collection cover

However, it is ultimately a positive, even touching story. You won't soon forget Dr. Winters and what he finds in a defunct ice plant on the edge of the town known as Bailey.

Aliens Among Us cover

"Polyphemus"

F&SF August, 1981
Hugo Award Finalist

Collected in:

The 1982 World's Best Science Fiction Don Wollheim ed., New York, DAW Books, 1982

Polyphemus
Jim Turner ed., Sauk City, Arkham House, 1987

Polyphemus preview

Polyphemus cover

"Nemo Me Impune Lacessit" Whispers Magazine, Stuart Schiff ed., March, 1982	Whispers Volume 4, Number 3-4 back cover	Whispers Volume 4, Number 3-4 cover
	Nemo Me Impune Lacessit preview	Nemo Me Impune sketch

"That Frog"

F&SF April, 1982

Collected in:

(Swedish)

That Frog preview

That Frog
cover

"The Horror on the #33"

F&SF August, 1982

Collected in:

The Year's Best Fantasy Stories #9
Art Saha ed., New York, DAW Books, 1983

Horror on the #33 preview

Horror on the #33 cover

Kuoleman Kirjat 1 (entitled 33. linjan bussissa)
Markku Sadelehto ed., Helsinki, Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, 1982

Polyphemus
Jim Turner ed., Sauk City, Arkham house, 1987

"Grunt-12 Test Drive"

F&SF February, 1983

"Creative Coverage, Inc." Whispers IV Stuart Schiff ed., New York, Doubleday & Co., 1983	Creative Coverage preview	Whispers IV cover
	Whispers IV inner front sleeve	Whispers IV inside sketch