Trujillo

Night Shade State

Artwork by J.K. Potter.

A new novel from Lucius Shepard! Note, this is not the same as the collection published in the UK in 2004.

In the town of Trujillo, in Honduras, on the edge of the Mosquito Coast, Dr. Arturo Ochoa, a semi-retired psychiatrist, has a single patient: a troubled young man named Thomas Stearns, the son of a wealthy Atlanta family. Stearns has been found adrift on the Carribean in a vessel owned by two Nicaraguans, both of whom are missing; he has been alone for eighteen days and has little memory of that time. Suspected of murder, Stearns is unconcerned. He knows his family will buy off the police. But he is reluctant to leave Trujillo, having developed an odd affinity for the town. As therapy progresses, he tells of a mysterious stone figure regurgitated by, improbably, a whirlpool, and Dr. Ochoa, drawn into his pathology, begins to doubt not only Stearns' sanity, but his own.

Trade Hardcover

Limited to 175 signed copies, signed by Lucius, and will include extra material

PS Publishing State

Introduction by Michael Swanwick

It collects the following stories:

• Only Partly Here
• A Walk In The Garden
• Crocodile Rock
• Eternity and Afterward
• Hands Up! Who Wants To Die?
• Jailwise
• The Drive In Puerto-Rico
• Senor Volto
• The Same Old Story
• The Park Sweeper
• Trujillo

Limited to 500 Hardcover copies signed by Shepard

Limited to 200 Slipcased Hardcover copies signed by Shepard and Swanwick