Overview
An Anthology of Stories as only Tim Powers fantasy grandmaster can provide!
Nine wild visions from the mind of Tim Powers!
From a sorcerer’s den in 19th century London, to two orphan girls fighting a psychic parasite in post WWI Paris, to raising the dead in modern Los Angeles, to a haunted sea voyage in the afterlife, these stories will transport you from the ordinary world to wonders that lie just beyond it.
Nine wild visions from the mind of Tim Powers!
From a sorcerer’s den in 19th century London, to two orphan girls fighting a psychic parasite in post WWI Paris, to raising the dead in modern Los Angeles, to a haunted sea voyage in the afterlife, these stories will transport you from the ordinary world to wonders that lie just beyond it.
- On an infinitely big ship carrying souls to an ominous afterlife, one soul tries to turn back.
- A man with second sight works to get justice for the ghost of a murdered woman.
- The son of a recently deceased Los Angeles sorcerer fights to protect his sister from his father’s predatory spirit.
- Raising the ghost of a murdered scientist inadvertently opens a parallel world.
- The son of a famous 1920s painter fights to resist possession by his father’s ghost.
- A sorcery-savvy crime lord in 1810 London kindles intelligence in the tabula rasa mind of a half-wit beggar, with unexpected results.
- The ransom in a kidnapping is a mummified oracular head.
- An antediluvian chamber in which man has never set foot offers “uncollapsed probabilities” of new world, and a charlatan clergyman tries to use it to become God.
- Two fugitive girls in WWI Paris confront a psychic parasite.
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