Bibliography
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Novels --
Out of Body, May 2020, (Tor.com)
Ahab's Return, or The Last Voyage, spring 2018, (Morrow/Harper Collins)
The Twilight Pariah, 2017, (Tor.com)
The Shadow Year, 2008, (Morrow/Harper Collins)
The Girl in the Glass, 2005, (Harper Collins)
The Cosmology of the Wider World, 2005, (PS Publishing, UK)
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, 2002, (Morrow/ Harper Collins)
The Beyond, 2001, (Eos/Harper Collins)
Memoranda, 1999, (Eos/Avon)
The Physiognomy, 1997, (Avon)
Vanitas, 1988, (Space & Time)
Short Story Collections --
Big Dark Hole, March, 2021, (Small Beer Press)
The Best of Jeffrey Ford, Jan. 2020, (PS Publishing, UK)
Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4: A Primer to Jeffrey Ford, Sept. 2019, (Dark Moon Books)
A Natural History of Hell, July, 2016 (Small Beer Press)
Crackpot Palace, 2012, (Perennial/Harper Collins)
The Drowned Life, 2008, (Perennial/Harper Collins)
The Empire of Ice Cream, 2005, (Golden Gryphon Press)
The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, 2002, (Golden Gryphon Press)
Short Stories --
"Pretty Good Neighbor" Tor.com, edited by Ellen Datlow, April, 2023
"Seasons Out of Time" in American Cannibal, edited by Rebecca Rowland, Maenad Press, March, 2023
"Born Blind" in Bourbon Penn (pub date ?)
"The Golden Hour" in Someone in Time, edited by Jonathan Strahan for Solaris, May, 2022
"Gate 9" in Conjunctions 78 Fear Itself, edited by Bradford Morrow, Spring 2022
"Beautiful Dreamer" in Screams From the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow for Tor Nightfire, April 2022
"The Return of Grace Malfrey" in Lost worlds and Mythological Kingdoms, edited by John Joseph Adams for Grim Oak Press, March 8, 2022
"The Last Booth" in Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology, edited by Eric Guignard for Dark Moon Books, Nov. 2021
"The Door in the Fence" in When Things Get Dark, edited by Ellen Datlow for Titan Books, Sept. 2021
"Monkey In the Woods" in Big Dark Hole, Small Beer Press, July 2021
"Inn of the Dreaming Dog" in Big Dark Hole, Small Beer Press, July, 2021
"The Match" in Big Dark Hole, Small Beer Press, July, 2021
"Monster Eight" in Conjunctions 74, Grendel's Kin, The Monsters Issue, Spring 2020
"From the Balcony of the Idawolf Arms" in Final Cuts, edited by Ellen Datlow for Blumhouse/Anchor Press
""Mr. Sacrobatus" in The Best of Jeffrey Ford, edited by Nick Gevers for PS Publishing, Jan. 2020
"Incorruptible" in Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4, edited by Eric Guignard for Dark Moon Press, Feb. 2019
"Snowman On a White Horse" in Then Again, edited and published by Laura Christensen, Fall 2019
"Sisyphus in Elysium" in The Mythic Dream, edited by Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien for Saga/Simon and Schuster, Summer 2019
"Dick Shook" in Conjunctions Online, edited by Bradford Morrow Fall 2018 http://www.conjunctions.com/online/article/jeffrey-ford-11-27-2018
"Thanksgiving," in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Charles Finlay, November/December Issue 2018
"Big Dark Hole," in Conjunctions 71: Cabinet of Curiosities, edited by Bradford Morrow, Fall Issue, 2018
"The Jeweled Wren," in Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, edited by Ellen Datlow for Saga/Simon Schuster, Sept. 2019
"The Bookcase Expedition," in Robots VS. Fairies, edited by Navah Wolfe & Dominik Parisien for Saga/Simon & Schuster, Jan., 9th, 2018.
"All the King's Men," in Mad Hatters and March Hares, edited by Ellen Datlow for Tor Books, Dec., 12th, 2017
"Witch Hazel," in Haunted Nights, edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton for Penguin/Random House, Oct., 3rd, 2017
"The Five Pointed Spell," in Horror Library #6, edited by Eric Guignard for Cutting Block Books, April, 2017
"The Murmurations of Vienna Von Drome," in Black Feathers, edited by Ellen Datlow for Pegasus Books, Feb., 2017
"Not Without Mercy," in Conjunctions: 67 Other Aliens, edited by Elizabeth Hand and Bradford Morrow. Fall, 2016
"The Blameless," A Natural History of Hell, edited by Gavin Grant & Kelly Link, Small Beer Press, July 2016
"The Thousand Eyes," The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, edited by Dominik Paresien and Navah Wolfe, Saga Press, July 2016
"In Havana" in Licence Expired, The Unauthorized James Bond, edited by Madeline Ashby and David Nickle, ChiZine, Nov. 2015
"The 3 Snake Leaves" in Grimm Future, edited by Erin Underwood, NESFA Press
"The Winter Wraith" in F&SF, Nov./Dec. 2015
"The Thyme Fiend" at Tor.com, edited by Ellen Datlow, TOR, March, 2015
"Word Doll" in The Doll Collection,edited by Ellen Datlow, TOR Books, Spring 2015
"The Order of the Haunted Wood" in Letters to Lovecraft, edited by Jesse Bullington, Stone Skin Press, Fall 2014
"Hibbler's Minions" in Nightmare Carnival, edited by Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse, Oct. 2014.
"La Madre Del Oro" in Dead Man's Hand, edited by John Joseph Adams, Titan Books, May 2014.
"Mount Chary Galore" in Fearful Symmetries, edited by Ellen Datlow, Chizine, May 2014.
"The Prelate's Commission" on Subterranean Magazine (online), edited by Jonathan Strahan, Winter, 2014
"A Terror" on TOR.com, edited by Ellen Datlow, TOR, July 2013.
"Rocket Ship to Hell" on TOR.com, edited By Ann VanderMeer, TOR, July 2013
"Spirits of Salt" in Fearsome Journeys, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, Summer 2013.
"A Meeting in Oz" in Oz Reimagined, edited by John Joseph Adams and Doug Cohen, 47 North, Spring, 2013.
"The Pittsburgh Technology" in The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination, edited by John Joseph Adams, TOR, 2013.
"The Fairy Enterprise" in Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, TOR, Spring 2013.
"Blood Drive" in After, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, TOR, Fall 2012.
"The Angel Seems" in Dark Faith: Invocations, edited by Jerry Gordon and Maurice Broaddus, Apex Books, 2012.
"A Natural History of Autumn" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August issue, 2012.
"Glass Eels" in New Jersey Noir, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, Akashic Press, 2011.
"Things To Do With Leftover Copies of President Bush's Autobiography" (with Michael Gallagher), MAD Magazine, #508, April 2011.
"The Double of My Double Is Not My Double" in Eclipse 4, edited by Jonathan Strahan , Night Shade Books, 2011.
"Relic" in Dr. Lambshead's Cabinet of Curiosities, edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Harper Voyager, 2011
"Sit the Dead" in Teeth, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Harper Collins, 2011
"Gaslight" in The Revelator, issue#1, edited by Matt Cheney and Eric Schaller, 2011.
"The Hag's Peak Affair" in Portents, edited by Al Sarrantonio, Flying Fox Press, 2011.
"The Summer Palace" in Ghosts By Gaslight, edited by Nick Gevers and Jack Dann, Harper Voyager, 2011.
"The Last Triangle" in Supernatural Noir, edited by Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse Press, 2011.
"Daddy Long Legs of the Evening" in Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow, St. Martin's Press, 2011.
"Down Atsion Road" in Haunted Legends, edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamamatas, TOR, 2010.
"Polka-dots and Moonbeams" in Stories, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, Harper Collins, 2010.
"Dr. Lash Remembers" in Steampunk Reloaded, edited by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, Tachyon, 2010.
"Sorcerer Minus" in Way of the Wizard, edited by John Joseph Adams, Prime Books, 2010.
"Ganesha" in The Beastly Bride , edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking Juvenile, 2010.
"86 Deathdick Road" in The Book of Dreams, edited by Nick Gevers, Subterranean Press, 2010.
"The Coral Heart" in Eclipse#3, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, Nov. 2, 2009.
"Weiroot" in Weird Tales Magazine #353, Spring 2009.
"The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper" in Interfictions 2, edited by Chris Barzak and Delia Sherman, Small Beer Press, Fall 2009.
"The Golden Dragon" in The Drowned Life (an original for the collection), Nov. 4th 2008.
"The Seventh Expression of the Robot General" in Eclipse #2, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, Nov. 15, 2008.
"The Dismantled Invention of Fate" in The Starry Rift, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Viking Juvenile, Apr. 17, 2008.
"The Fat One" in The Drowned Life (an original for the collection), Nov. 4th 2008.
"After Moreau" in Clarkesworld Magazine (online), Isuue #19, 2008.
"The Dream of Reason" in Extraordinary Engines, edited by Nick Gevers, Solaris, Oct. 6, 2008.
"Daltharee" in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow, Del Rey, April 9, 2008. Also in Year's Best Fantasy #9, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, TOR, Spring 2009. Also in Best American Fantasy #3, edited by Kevin Brockmeier, forthcoming (2010). Also in Year's Best Fantasy & Science Fiction 2009, edited by Richard Horton, Prime Books, forthcoming (2010).
"The Manticore Spell" in Wizards, edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois, Berkley, May 1, 2007. Also in Tails of Wonder and Imagination, edited by Ellen Datlow, Night Shade Books, forthcoming (2010).
"The Drowned Life" in Eclipse#1, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, Oct.1, 2007. Also in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, St. Martins, Sept. 30, 2008. Also in Best American Fantasy 2, edited by Matthew Cheney, Jeff VanderMeer and Anne VanderMeer, Prime Books, Nov. 29, 2008.
”Ariadne's Mother" in The Flash, edited by Peter Wild, Social Disease Press, Apr. 2007.
"The Bedroom Light" in Inferno, edited by Ellen Datlow, TOR, Dec. 10, 2007.
"A Few Things About Ants" in Journal of Mythic Arts (online), edited by Terri Windling and Midori Snyder, 2007.
"Quitting Dreams" with Matthew Cheney in Electric Velocipede Magazine #11, edited by John Klima, 2007.
"Under the Bottom of the Lake" in Subterranean Magazine #7, edited by Ellen Datlow, 2007. Also in Year's Best Fantasy #8, edited by Kathryn Cramer and David Hartwell, Tachyon Press, 2008.
"The Dreaming Wind" in Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking Juvenile, July 19, 2007. Also in Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year vol. 2, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007.
"The Way He Does It" in Electric Velocipede Magazine, Issue #10, 2006.
"The Night Whiskey" in Salon Fantastique, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Running Press, Sept. 25, 2006. Also in The Best Sceince Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. #1, edited by Richard Horton, Prime Books, 2007. Also in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror # 20, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, St. Martins, 2007.
"A Man of Light" in SciFiction Magazine (online), edited by Ellen Datlow, SciFi.com, 2005.
"Giant Land" in Journal of Pulse Pounding Narratives Magazine #2, edited by Alex Irvine and Thom Davidsohn, 2005.
"The Scribble Mind" in SciFiction Magazine (online), edited by Ellen Datlow, SciFi.com, 2005. Also in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #19, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, St. Martins, 2006.
"Figurative Synesthesia" in The Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, edited by Jeff Vander Meer and Mark Roberts, Night Shade Books, 2005.
"Euroborean Lordosis" in The Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, edited by Jeff Vander Meer and Mark Roberts, Night Shade Books, 2005.
"The Boatman's Holiday" in The Book of Voices, edited by Mike Butscher, Flame Books, March, 2005. Also in Fantasy: Very Best of 2005, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2006. Also in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Oct./Nov., 2005.
"Botch Town" in The Empire of Ice Cream (an original for the collection), Golden Gryphon Press, April 1, 2006. Also in Best Short Novels, edited by Jonathan Strahan, Prime Books, 2007.
"The Trentino Kid" in The Dark, edited by Ellen Datlow, TOR, 2004.
"A Night in the Tropics" in Argosy Magazine #1, edited by Lou Anders, 2004. Also in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #18, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, 2005.
"The Weight of Words" in Leviathan #3, edited by Jeff VanderMeer and Forrest Aquirre, Wild Side Press, Aug. 19, 2004.
"Jupiter's Skull" in Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, edited by Al Sarrantonio, Harper Collins, 2004.
"The Annals of Eelin-Ok" in The Faerie Reel: Tales of the Twilight Realm, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking Juvenile, 2004.
"Coffins on the River" in Polyphony #3, Edited by Jay Lake and Deborah Lane, Wheatland Press, 2003.
"Present From the Past" in The Silver Gryphon, edited by Marty Halpern, Golden Gryphon Press, 2003.
"The Yellow Chamber" in Trampoline, edited by Kelly Link, Small Beer Press, 2003.
"The Empire of Ice Cream" in SciFiction Magazine (online), edited by Ellen Datlow, 2003. Also in Nebula Award Showcase, edited by Jack Dann, Roc, March 1, 2005. Also in Starship Sofa Anthology, edited by Tony Smith, StarShipSofa, Fall 2009. Also in The New Fantasy, edited by Peter Beagle, Tachyon Press, forthcoming (2010).
"The Beautiful Gelreesh" in Album Zutique, edited by Jeff VanderMeer, Ministry of Whimsy Press, March 1, 2003.
"Spicy Detective #3" in Journal of Pulse Pounding Narratives #1, edited by Alex Irvine and Thom Devidsohn, 2002.
"Something By the Sea" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by Gordon Van Gelder, Oct./Nov., 2002.
"The Green Word" in The Green Man: Tales From the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking Juvenile, May 27, 2002. Also in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #16, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, St. Martins, 2003. Also in Year's Best Fantasy #3, edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, TOR, 2003.
"What's Sure to Come" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Magazine # 10, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, 2002. Also in The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, Del Rey, 2007.
"Creation" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by Gordon Van Gelder, March, 2002. Also in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #16, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, St. Martins, 2003. Also in Very Best of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 60th Anniversary, edited by Gordon Van Gelder, Tachyon Books, 2009.
"Bright Morning" in The Fantasy Writer's Assistant (an original for the collection), Golden Gryphon Press, 2002. Also in Feeling Very Strange: A Slipstream Anthology, edited by John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly, Tachyon Books, 2006.
"The Fantasy Writer's Assistant" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by Gordon Van Gelder,
"Summer Afternoon" in Fantastic Metropolis (online), edited by Luis Rodriguez, 2001.
"Floating in Lindrethool" in SciFiction Magazine (online),edited by Ellen Datlow, SciFi.com, 2001.
"Out of the Canyon" in Fantastic Metropolis (online), edited by Luis Rodriguez, 2001.
"Exo-Skeleton Town" in Black Gate Magazine #1, edited by John O'Neal, 2001.
"The Honeyed Knot" in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, edited by Gordon Van Gelder, May, 2001. Also in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #15, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, 2002.
"Horrors By Waters" in Fantastic Metropolis (online), edited by Luis Rodriguez, 2001. Also in Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler, edited by Luis Rodriguez, Prime Books, 2003.
"Quiet Days in Purgatory" in Fantastic Metropolis (online), edited by Luis Rodriguez, 2001.
"The Far Oasis" in SciFiction (online), edited by Ellen Datlow, SciFi.com, 2001.
"High Tea With Jules Verne" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet Magazine #7, edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, 2001.
"Malthusian's Zombie" in SciFiction (online), edited by Ellen Datlow, SciFi.com, 2000. Also in The Living Dead, edited by John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books, 2008.
"Pansolapia" in Event Horizon (online), edited by Ellen Datlow and Robert Killheffer, 2001. Also in Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow, Prime Books, forthcoming (2010).
"At Reparata" in Event Horizon (online), edited by Ellen Datlow and Robert Killheffer, 2000. Also in Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #13, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, St. Martins, 2000. Also in The New Weird, edited by Jeff and Anne VanderMeer, Tachyon Press, 2009.
"Grass Island" in Puerto Del Sol Magazine, New Mexico State University, Summer 1995.
"The White Man" in Aberrations Magazine, edited by Michael Andre-Druisi, 1995. Also in Paraspheres, edited by Rusty Morrison and Ken Keagen, Omnidawn Publishing, 1996.
"Rabbit Test" in MSS Magazine, edited by Robert Mooney, SUNY Binghamton, Fall 1995.
"On the Road to New Egypt" in Aberrations Magazine, edited by Michael Andre Druisi, 1995. Also in Cross of Centuries: 25 Imaginative Tales About the Christ, edited by Michael Bishop, Thunders Mouth Press, May 7, 2007. Also in Sympathy For the Devil, edited by Tim Pratt, Night Shade Books, forthcoming (2010).
"The Delicate" in Space & Time, edited by Gordon Linzner, 1994.
"The Woman Who Counts Her Breath" in The Northwest Review Vol. 32 #3, 1994.
"A Hole in the Day" in Space & Time, edited by Gordon Linzner, Fall 1993.
"Every Richie There Is" in Puerto Del Sol, New Mexico State University, Winter 1993.
"The Colossus of Roads" in Kiosk, Spring 1993.
"The Eighth Wonder" in MSS Magazine, edited by Liz Rosenberg, SUNY Binghamton, Fall 1992.
"Couch Dancing" in Kiosk, Spring 1992.
"The Place Where nothing Moved" in Timbuktu, Spring 1991.
"Eclipse" in The Nantucket Review, (?). Also in Buffalo Spree Magazine, Winter 1991.
"The Last Half" in Hayden's Ferry Review, Arizona State University, Fall 1990.
"The Cosmology of the Wider World" in MSS Magazine, edited by Liz Rosenberg, SUNY Binghamton, 1990.
"The Alchemist, Becalmed At Sea" in Space & Time, edited by Gordon Linzner, Summer 1989.
"Never" in Hayden's Ferry Review, Arizona State University, Spring 1989.
"Rose Country" in Timbuktu, Spring 1989.
"The Master of Fiction" in MSS Magazine Vol. VI #2, edited by Liz Rosenberg, SUNY Binghamton, 1988.
"Rapture of the Deep" in MSS Magazine Vol. IV #3, SUNY Binghamton, edited by Liz Rosenberg, 1985.
"Legacy" in MSS Magazine Vol. III #2 and #3, edited by John Gardner and Liz Rosenberg, SUNY Binghamton, 1984.
"The Casket" in MSS Magazine, edited by John Gardner, Fall/Winter 1981.
Non-Fiction --
Introduction to Carlos Hernandez's short story collection The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria, January 2016
Introduction to Anna Tambour's short story collection, The Finest Ass in the Universe, Ticonderoga Publications, July 2015
Introduction to Michael Cisco's novel, The Traitor, Cenitpede Press, 2012.
Introduction to Ekaterina Sedia's short story collection, Moscow, But Dreaming, Prime Books, 2012.
Introduction to John Langan's short story collection, The Wide Carniverous Sky, Hippocampus Press, 2013.
Introduction to David Herter's novel, October Dark, Earthling Books, November 2009.
Introduction to Robert Wexler's novel, The Painting and the City, PS Publishing, UK, 2008.
Essay on "The Metaphysics of Fiction Writing" included in end matter with story collection, The Drowned Life, 2008.
Essay on "Anatomy of Sleep" by Shelley Jackson for online magazine, Heliotrope, Fall 2007.
Essay "I Love a Mystery" for LitBlog Co-op site, May 4, 2006.
Introduction to Richard Bowes' story collection, Streetcar Dreams, PS Publishing, UK, 2006.
Essay on "Lull" by Kelly Link for online magazine Fantastic Metropolis, Jan. 1, 2005.
Introduction to John Gardner's Grendel, Fantasy Masterworks Series #41, Gollancz, UK, 2004
Introduction to Jeff VanderMeer's story collection, Secret Life, Golden Gryphon Press, 2004.
Essay on "The Man Upstairs" by Ray Bradbury for Fantastic Metropolis, Dec. 27, 2004.
Essay on "The Friends of the Friends" by Henry James for Fantastic Metropolis, Dec. 24, 2004.
Essay on "The Hell Screen" by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Fantastic Metropolis, Dec. 21, 2004.
Introduction to Lucius Shepard's short novel, Floater, PS Publishing, UK, 2003.
Curiosities Column, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, on The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos, June 2000.
Curiosities Column, Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, on Katter Murr by E. T. A. Hoffmann, April 1999.