Stories
“Pearls of the Vampire Queen”
Phantasy Cover
Phantasy Digest #3, 1977. Later released as part of _Nifft, The Lean_ and Polyphemus.
“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
“The Autopsy”
The Best of Modern Horror
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. 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
Finnish collection cover
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.
Aliens Among Us
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.
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
“Polyphemus”
Polyphemus Cover
Polyphemus Cover
Polyphemus Preview
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
“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”
That Frog cover
That Frog preview
F&SF April, 1982
Collected in:
(Swedish)
That Frog preview
“The Horror on the #33″
F&SF August The Horror on the #33 cover
F&SF August The Horror on the #33
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
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”
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
Whispers IV Inner Front Sleeve
Whispers Sketch
“Fill It With Regular”
F&SF October, 1986
Collected in:
Axolotl Special #1
John Pelan ed., Seattle, Pulphouse/Axolotl Press, 1989
“Uncle Tuggs”
Kuoleman Kierjat 3
F&SF May, 1986
Collected in:
Polyphemus
Jim Turner ed., Sauk City, Arkham House, 1987
The Best From Fantasy and Science Fiction: A 40th Anniversary Anthology
Ed Ferman ed., New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1989
Kuoleman Kierjat 3 (entitled Eno Tuggs)
Markku Sadelehto ed., Helsinki, Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhitio, 1993
“The Extra”
F&SF May, 1987
Collected in:
Polyphemus
Jim Turner ed., Sauk city, Arkham House, 1987
“The Delivery”
The Delivery
The Delivery
F&SF October, 1987
“Fat Face”
Fat Face
Fat Face
Axolotl Press, Limited Edition
John Pelan ed., Eugene, Axolotl Press 1988
Collected in:
The Year’s Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling eds., New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1988
The Year’s Best Horror Stories XVI
Karl Wagner ed., New York, DAW Books, 1988
Demons and Dreams
Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling eds., New York, Legend, 1989
Mustava Kivi (entitled Laskinaama)
Markku Sadelehto ed., Helsinki, Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, 1995
Chthulu 2000
Jim Turner ed., Sauk City, Arkham House, 2000
“I, Said the Fly”
I, Said the Fly
The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction
Ellen Datlow ed., New York, Zebra Books, 1989
Reprinted in:
I, Said the Fly (limited edition hardbound)
John Pelan ed., Seattle, Silver Salamander Press, 1993
“Salome”
Cemetary Dance #21 Summer, 1994
“Pick and Grim”
Alfred Hitchcock Magazine vol. 39 #10, October, 1994
“Johnny Crack”
Tomorrow, Johnny Crack
tomorrow December, 1994
“Tollbooth”
tomorrow August, 1995
“Fast Food”
Fast Food
Century #3, Winter, 1995
“Upscale”
The Scream Factory Issue #16, 1995
“Pieca Chain”
tomorrow February, 1996
“For Every Tatter In Its Mortal Dress”
For Every Tatter
For Every Tatter Cover
F&SF February, 2000
“The Rebuke”
The Rebuke
30th Anniversary DAW Fantasy, Elizabeth R. Wollheim and Sheila E. Gilbert eds., New York, DAW Books, 2002
SF Site 2002 online review says “the best stories in the collection come from contributors like Michael Shea” (Alma A. Hromic). Link
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“The Growlimb”
The Growlimb
F&SF January 2004
The Growlimb by Michael Shea is classic supernatural horror.
Nominated for Four Awards!
Read it in it’s original venue, Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 2004.
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