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description: For decades John Shirley has been a leading author of weird fiction with an impressively wide range. His work stretches from science fiction to supernatural horror to psychological terror and everything in between. Here in two new and unpublished works Shirley ventures into the realm of fantasy.The short novel A Sorcerer of Atlantis introduces us to two adventurers Brimm and Snoori who find themselves in Atlantis battling an array of bizarre monsters in the company of the warrior princess Selinn of Ur. But as Brinn becomes intimate with Maitha the Queen of Atlantis he senses that more baleful creatures threaten the continent including the menacing People of the Deep foreshadowing Atlantiss imminent doom.In the novella A Prince in the Kingdom of Ghosts Korean-American Kerrin Kim shattered by his fathers death is himself murderedand finds himself in an afterlife realm where he must assume the responsibilities of a prince in a land of ghosts elemental spirits and other supernatural threats.In this pair of tales written in the tradition of Robert E. Howard H. P. Lovecraft Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance John Shirley reveals an exuberant imagination a skill at portraying vivid and memorable characters and a narrative pace that carries the reader on from beginning to end with breathless excitement. Chilling terror mixes with wry humor as Shirley makes his fantasy worlds unescapably real.
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title: A Sorcerer of Atlantis: with A Prince in the Kingdom of Ghosts
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