Polyphemus (book)

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Title Polyphemus

Dust-jacket illustration by Harry O. Morris for Polyphemus
Author Michael Shea
Illustrator John Stewart
Cover artist Harry O. Morris
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher Arkham House
Released 1987
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages x, 245 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-87054-155-2

Polyphemus is a collection of Science fiction, fantasy and horror stories by author Michael Shea. It was released in 1987 by Arkham House . It was published in an edition of 3,528 copies and was the author's first hardcover book. Most of the stories originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

[edit] Contents

Polyphemus contains the following stories:

  1. "Foreword", by Algis Budrys
  2. "Polyphemus"
  3. "The Angel of Death"
  4. "Uncle Tuggs"
  5. "The Pearls of the Vampire Queen"
  6. "The Horror on the #33"
  7. "The Extra"
  8. "The Autopsy"

[edit] Reprints

  • London: Grafton, 1990.

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 141. ISBN 1-55742-005-X. 
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 56. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 157. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 134. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.