Life During Wartime

Also by Lucius Shephard

Green Eyes

Life During Wartime

The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter

The Father of Stones

Kalimantan

The Golden

The Last Time

Valentine

Aztechs

Colonel Rutherford’s Colt

Louisiana Breakdown

Floater

Trujillo

Liar’s House

A Handbook of American Prayer

Viator

Softspoken

The Taborin Scale

The Jaguar Hunter

Nantucket Slayrides: Three Short Novels

The Ends of the Earth

Sports & Music

Barnacle Bill the Spacer and Other Stories; also published as Beast of the Heartland and Other Stories

Two Trains Running

Trujillo and Other Stories

Dagger Key and Other Stories

The Best of Lucius Shepard

Skull City and Other Lost Stories

Vacancy & Ariel

Viator Plus

“The Taylorsville Reconstruction,” Universe 13, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1983

“Solitario’s Eyes, F&SF, Sept 1983”

“Salvador,” F&SF, April 1984

“The Etheric Transmitter,” The Clarion Awards, ed. Damon Knight, Doubleday, 1984

“Black Coral,” Universe 14, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1984

“A Traveler’s Tale,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1984

“The Storming of Annie Kinsdale,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Sept 1984

“The Night of White Bhairab,” F&SF, Oct 1984

“The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,” F&SF, Dec 1984

“Reaper,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Dec 1984

“The End of Life as We Know It,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Jan 1985.

“How the Wind Spoke at Madaket,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1985

“The Jaguar Hunter,” F&SF, May 1985

“Mengele,” Universe 15, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1985

“The Fundamental Things,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1985

“‘…How My Heart Breaks When I Sing This Song…,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Dec 1985

“A Spanish Lesson,” F&SF, Dec 1985

“Fire Zone Emerald,” Playboy, Feb 1986

“R & R,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1986

“Aymara,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Aug 1986

“The Arcevoalo,” F&SF, Oct 1986

“Voyage South from Thousand Willows,” Universe 16 ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1986

“Dancing It All Away at Nadoka,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Mid-Dec 1986

“Delta Sly Honey,” Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, Oct 1987

“Shades,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Dec 1987

“The Glassblower’s Dragon,” F&SF, April 1987

“The Sun Spider,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, April 1987

“The Exercise of Faith,” Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1987

“The Black Clay Boy,” Whispers VI, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Doubleday, 1987

“On the Border,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Aug 1987

“The Scalehunter’s Beautiful Daughter,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Sept 1988

“Life of Buddha,” Omni, May 1988

“Jack’s Decline,” Ripper! eds. Susan Casper and Gardner Dozois, Tor, 1988

“Nomans Land,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Oct 1988

“A Wooden Tiger,” F&SF, Oct 1988

“Youthful Folly,” Omni, Nov 1988

“The Way It Sometimes Happens,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Dec 1988

“The Ends of the Earth,” F&SF, March 1989

“Chango,” Ice River #4, 1989

“Surrender,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Aug 1989

“The Father of Stones,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Sept 1989

“Bound For Glory,” F&SF, Oct 1989

“The All-Consuming” (with Robert Frazier), Playboy, July 1990

“Skull City,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1990

“Sports in America (1991), Playboy, July 1991

“A Little Night Music,” Omni, March 1992

“Victory,” Omni, May 1992

“Barnacle Bill the Spacer,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, July 1992

“Beast of the Heartland,” Playboy, Sept 1992

“All the Perfumes of Araby,” Best of Omni Science Fiction 2, ed. Ellen Datlow, OMNI Books, 1992

“A Personal Matter,” (excerpt from The Golden) Amazing Stories, July 1993

“The Last Time,” Little Deaths, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994

“Human History,” 21st Annual World Fantasy Convention program book ed. Stephen P. Brown, Baltimore Gun Club, L.L.C., 1995

“Pizza Man,” Playboy, Sept 1996

“Crocodile Rock,” F&SF, Oct 1999

“Radiant Green Star,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, Aug 2000

“Romance of the Century,” GORP, 11/2000

“Sparring Partner,” Playboy, March 2001

“Eternity and Afterward,” F&SF, March 2001

“Aztechs,” SciFiction, Sept 2001

“Over Yonder,” SciFiction, Jan 2002

“Emerald Street Expansions,” SciFiction, March 2002

“How Lonesome Heartbreak Changed His Life,” Beast of the Heartland , June 2000;

“The Drive-In Puerto Rico,” F&SF, Oct/Nov 2002

“Señor Volto,” Sci Fiction, February, 2003

“Only Partly Here,” Asimov’s, March 2003

“The Same Old Story,” Polyphony 2, Deborah Layne, ed., April 2003

“After Ildiko,” The Silver Gryphon, Gary Turner & Marty Halpern eds., May 2003

“Jailwise,” Sci Fiction, June 2003

“A Walk in the Garden,” SciFiction, Aug 2003

“Limbo,” The Dark, Ellen Datlow ed., Oct 2003

“Ariel,” Asimov’s, Oct/Nov 2003

“The Park Sweeper,” The Third Alternative 36, Nov 2003

“Liar’s House,” Sci Fiction, Dec 2003

"Jailbait," Two Trains Running (Urbana, IL: Golden Gryphon Press, 2004)

“Hands Up! Who Wants to Die?,” Night Visions 11, Bill Sheehan, ed., May, 2004

“The Blackpool Ascensions,” Polyphony 4, Deborah Layne, Jay Lake eds., Sept 2004

“The ‘Velt”, Amazon Shorts, July 2005

“Abimagique”, SciFiction, Aug 2005

“The Emperor”, SciFiction, Aug 2005

“The Lepidopterist”, Salon Fantastique: Fifteen Original Tales of Fantasy, eds. Ellen Datlow, Teri Wilding, Oct 2006

“Chinandega”, The Solaris Book of New Fantasy, ed. George Mann, 2007

“Dinner at Baldasarro’s”, Postscripts, Spring 2007, eds. Pete Crowther, Nick Gevers, Mar, 2007

“Dead Money”, Asimov’s, April/May, 2007

“Stars Seen Through Stone”, F&SF, July 2007

“Abimagique”, SciFiction, 2007

“Vacancy”, Subterranean Magazine, Issue # 7, ed. Ellen Datlow, 2007

“Dagger Key”, Dagger Key and Other Stories, Sept 2007

“Larissa Miusov”, Eclipse One, ed. Jonathan Strahan, Oct 2007

“The Ease With Which We Freed the Beast”, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, ed. Ellen Datlow, Dec 2007

“Kirikh’quru Krokundor”, Poe: 19 New Tales of Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Ellen Datlow, 2009

“Dog-Eared Paperback of My Life”, Other Earths, ed. Nick Gevers, Jay Lake, 2009

“Sylgarmo’s Proclamation”, Songs of the Dying Earth, ed. Gardner Dozois, George R. R. Martin, Aug 2009

“Halloween Town”, F&SF, Oct/Nov 2009

“Dream Burgers at the Mouth of Hell”, ed. by Nick Gevers, Feb. 2010 [forthcoming]

“The Flock”, The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People, ed. Ellen Datlow, April, 2010 [forthcoming]

“The Skinny Girl”, Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy, ed. Ellen Datlow, Winter, 2011 [forthcoming]

“The Company He Keeps” [forthcoming]

“Slice of Life” [forthcoming]

“Extras” [forthcoming]

“Cantata of Death, Weakmind & Generation,” Lillabulero Press (Chapel Hill, NC)

“Challenger as Viewed from the Westerbrook Bar,” IASFM, Oct. 1986

“White Trains,” Night Cry, Spring 1987

“Pictures Made of Stones,” Omni, Sept. 1987

“How I Spent My Summer Vacation: A Student Perspective on Clarion,” IASFM, Feb. 1985

“Waiting for the Barbarians,” Journal Wired Winter 1989

“Remedial Reading for the Generation of Swine,” Journal Wired, Spring 1990

“Stark Raving: George Bush and the Pineapple of Doom,” Journal Wired, Summer/Fall 1990

“Read This,” The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 1991

“Introduction,” Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook Two, ed. David Garnett, Orbit, 1989

“Incident in the Petén,” Chronicles of the Mutant Rain Forest, Horror’s Head Press, 1992

“Avram Davidson 1923-1993,” Nebula Awards 29, ed. Pamela Sargent, Harcourt Brace, 1995

“An Appreciation of Avram Davidson,” Eidolon, Fall 1996

“God Is in the Details,” Paragons, ed. Robin Wilson, St. Martin’s Press, 1996

“Introduction,” Going Home Again by Howard Waldrop, Eidolon Publications, 1997

“The Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Symposium,” Nebula Awards 32, ed. Jack Dann, Harvest, 1998

“Afterword,” The Avram Davidson Treasury, ed. Grania Davis, Tor, 1998

“This Space for Advertising,” Event Horizon, 10/14/98

“The Millennium Cucaracha,” Event Horizon, 1/14/99

“The Littleton Follies,” Event Horizon, 5/18/99

“Weapons of Mass Seduction” [essay collection/film reviews], Wheatland Press, ed. Deborah Layne, Jay Lake, 2005

“With Christmas in Honduras”