Blaylock: 81 books

James P Blaylock's 1982 début novel The Elfin Ship has become a classic of whimsical fantasy. With echoes of Kenneth Graham and Mark Twain, it's a gentle, eccentric and hilarious novel that will delight readers of all ages. Trading with the elves used to be so simple. Every year Master Cheeser...

Jonathan Bing, Master Cheeser, has been growing a bit bored in Twombly Town. So it’s no surprise that when Professor Wurzle suggests a trip downriver, Jonathan jumps at the chance. A visit to the Evil Dwarf Selznak’s abandoned castle leads to a treasure hunt, but also to the discovery that Jonathan’s...

The first in Subterranean Press' plans to bring to light some unduly neglected works by noted poet William Ashbless, this new chapbook contains “Slouching Toward Mauritius,” a piratical short story written more than 25 years ago but never published, along with a lengthy pirate poem, “Moon-Eye...

NYC Midnight hosts an annual short story writing competition. I competed with over 1,400 writers in the first round of the 2015 writing challenge. Writers are placed random in heats and are given a genre, subject, and character assignment. They then have 8 days to write an original story no longer...

The price of immortality... Two thousand years ago, there lived a man who sold some valuable information for a fee of thirty silver coins. His name was Judas Iscariot and he is no longer with us. The coins, however, still exist - and still hold an elusive power over all who claim them... Like...

The Very Best is a story about Henry, a hippo, and his baseball team. Henry looks at the talents of his friends and tells his poppa he wants to quit. Poppa helps him see that everyone has their own talents. Only you can be the very best you.

« Intelligent et drôle, et surtout en avance sur son temps, le roman de Blaylock propose un univers steampunk fabuleux et des personnages encore meilleurs. Excellent. » Fantasy Book Review Que feriez-vous si vous pouviez remonter le temps ? Dans les rouages mystérieux de l’incroyable...

Howard Barton came to Mendocino in search of a folded scrap of paper. Not just any old scrap of paper, but one bearing what might be a sketch by the legendary Japanese artist, Hoku-sai. But Howard, unfortunately, is not the only one who wants the sketch. There's old Heloise Lamey, whose lush...

From the dark imagination of James P. Blaylock comes a new, chilling talke of the supernatural. When Peter Travers moves into an old house in a remote canyon to try to separate himself from his old existence, his wish becomes reality... all too literally. For his wife and son vanish and the...

James Blaylock is one of the finest writers in the fantasy field. Sixteen of his acclaimed short stories are collected here for the first time. Included is "Thirteen Phantasms," his brilliant World Fantasy Award-winning story of a man who returns to the Golden Age of science fiction through...

Metamorphosis  is collection of three short stories, written by three young students in collaboration by James P. Blaylock for a class taught by Tim Powers, who provides the introduction. Mirrors, shadows, and secret rooms: the houses in which we dwell are sometimes much stranger than...

The true story of a Venturing Crew's harrowing journey through Hellsgate Wilderness. Follow a well-meaning youth leader as he and his boys set off on a backpacking trip that quickly pushes them to their limits and ultimately forges a bond for life. At the suggestion of their good Bishop, the Priest...

It started out as a desperate cry for attention and grew into an online cathartic therapy session on the World Wide Web. IT’S CALLED HELPING…YOU’RE WELCOME is a compilation of posts from a blog (don’t stop reading) I kept for a couple of years with a sprinkling of notes and articles that I...

Even after the embers burn away, the smoke remains… In these nine beautifully illustrated tales, spirits linger like the memory of an extinguished cigarette: some sweet, some sentimental…some deadly. Get out your flashlight, open the book, and welcome the dead back to life. April...