Jeffrey E. Barlough

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Jeffrey E. (Ernest) Barlough
Born 1953 (age 54–55)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation Biologist, Veterinarian, Novelist
Genres Dark Fantasy, Horror fiction, Alternate History
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Jeffrey E. Barlough (born 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is a trained biologist and veterinarian with a Ph.D. in Virology from Cornell University who has published over 60 research and review articles in scientific journals since 1979. He is also an armchair historian and has edited small press publications of minor and archaic English works.

He is also the author of several dark fantasy novels that comprise his Western Lights series, set in an alternate world in which the last Ice Age never ended. Then, in the year 1839, a catastrophic event known as “the sundering” (its cause unknown at the time) wiped out most of the earth's population and plunged the world into an even deeper Ice Age. By an accident of geography, only a narrow North American coastline (from what is now lower British Columbia to approximately San Diego) of civilization survives, where Victorian society exists alongside prehistoric beasts. The books are written in a style reminiscent of 19th century authors that has often been referred to Charles Dickens mixed with H. P. Lovecraft. His stories portray eccentric and (mostly) likable characters set within detailed locations that, on the surface, seem mundane and sometimes even cheery, but sinister plots and presences are slowly and carefully revealed.

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[edit] Western Lights novels

  • Dark Sleeper (1998, first trade edition 2000)
  • The House in the High Wood: A Story of Old Talbotshire (2001)
  • Strange Cargo (2004)
  • Bertram of Butter Cross (2007)
  • Anchorwick (forthcoming, October 31, 2008) Description from www.westernlightsbooks.com: [...]the novel he is writing at present, the fifth in the series, can be viewed as a sort of “prequel” to the rest. “In the fifth book I have returned to the scene of Dark Sleeper - the ancient city of Salthead and its famous university. The time, however, is some thirty years before the events of Dark Sleeper, and certain characters from that novel will reappear in the new one as their younger selves.” The new volume features, among others things, a missing professor, an outbreak of graffiti, and a heretic saint.

Cover art for Dark Sleeper

Cover art for The House in the High Wood: A Story of Old Talbotshire

Cover art for Strange Cargo

Cover art for Bertram of Butter Cross

Cover art for Anchorwick

[edit] Medical books

  • Manual of Small Animal Infectious Diseases (Editor) (1988)
  • UC Davis Book of Dogs: The Complete Medical Reference Guide for Dogs and Puppies (Editor, with Mordecai Siegal) (1995)
  • UC Davis Book of Horses: A Complete Medical Reference Guide for Horses and Foals (Editor, with Mordecai Siegal and Victoria Blankenship Siegal) (1996)

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