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The collection showcases the complete short fiction of James Sallis, featuring 154 stories, including 12 exclusive to this volume. Spanning six decades, it highlights Sallis's versatility across genres such as crime, noir, and speculative fiction. Revered for his innovative style and literary prowess, he is compared to contemporaries like Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon. His work is celebrated for its poetic depth, philosophical insights, and emotional resonance, making this volume a significant addition for fans and writers alike.

The collection features a series of captivating short stories that blend familiar and fantastical elements, drawing readers into unique worlds. Each tale invites contemplation and challenges perceptions, showcasing the author's skill in crafting idiosyncratic characters. The imaginative narratives echo the depth found in his previous works, encouraging readers to unravel the complexities of each story. With a blend of intrigue and subtlety, the collection keeps readers engaged and on the edge of their seats.

Inspired by the essence of blues music, this collection features lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate the beauty found in everyday life. James Sallis weaves together themes of music and mystery, creating a rich tapestry of emotions and experiences that resonate deeply with readers. The poems reflect a unique blend of rhythm and storytelling, inviting an exploration of both personal and universal truths.

Finding people is what former private investigator Lew Griffin excels at. The terrible irony is that the exception is his own missing son. Dreams, memories, and reality run together to form his own darkest night. Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans—a teacher, a writer, and an ex-detective. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son—and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and toting a copy of one of Lew’s novels. Learning the truth is a quest that will take Griffin into his own past as he tries to deal with the present: a search for three missing young men.

"As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, he discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the shooter? Somewhere in the Crescent City-and in the white supremacist movement crawling through it-there's an answer. But to get to it, he is going to have to work with the only people offering help, people he knows he should avoid"-- Provided by publisher

A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive. Sarah Jane Pullman is a cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the mysterious disappearance of the sheriff whose shoes she’s filling—and the even more mysterious realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest friends. This kaleidoscopic character study sparkles in every dark and bright detail—a virtuoso work by a master of both and the tender aspects of human nature.

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Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when...

Exploring themes of post-war trauma, this poetry collection delves into a gothic noir atmosphere, revealing a speaker's complex relationship with time and space. The familiar becomes unsettling, while the strange feels oddly recognizable, creating a haunting interplay that invites deep reflection.

In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Dr Lamar Hale, the towns all-purpose general practitioner, surgeon and town conscience.