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Jeffrey Ford
Author · 48 books

Jeffrey Ford is an American writer in the Fantastic genre tradition, although his works have spanned genres including Fantasy, Science Fiction and Mystery. His work is characterized by a sweeping imaginative power, humor, literary allusion, and a fascination with tales told within tales. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he studied with the novelist John Gardner. He lives in southern New Jersey and teaches writing and literature at Brookdale Community College in Monmouth County. He has also taught at the summer Clarion Workshop for science fiction and fantasy writers in Michigan. He has contributed stories, essays and interviews to various magazines and e-magazines including MSS, Puerto Del Sol, Northwest Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Argosy, Event Horizon, Infinity Plus, Black Gate and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He published his first story, "The Casket", in Gardner's literary magazine MSS in 1981 and his first full-length novel, Vanitas, in 1988.

Series

Books

The Girl in the Glass book cover

The Girl in the Glass

2005

A Terror book cover

A Terror

2013

The Empire of Ice Cream book cover

The Empire of Ice Cream

Stories

2004

A Natural History of Hell book cover

A Natural History of Hell

2016

Echoes book cover

Echoes

2019

The Mythic Dream book cover

The Mythic Dream

2019

The Drowned Life book cover

The Drowned Life

2008

Pretty Good Neighbor book cover

Pretty Good Neighbor

2023

A Meeting in Oz book cover

A Meeting in Oz

2013

Haunted Nights book cover

Haunted Nights

A Horror Writers Association Anthology

2017

The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination book cover

The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination

Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius

2013

Gigamesh 31 book cover

Gigamesh 31

2002

Apex Magazine Issue 43 book cover

Apex Magazine Issue 43

2012

The Sword & Sorcery Anthology book cover

The Sword & Sorcery Anthology

2012

El viento soñador y otros relatos. Antología de fantasía y ciencia ficción. book cover

El viento soñador y otros relatos. Antología de fantasía y ciencia ficción.

2018

The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque book cover

The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

2002

The Best Horror of the Year - Volume Five book cover

The Best Horror of the Year - Volume Five

2013

The Twilight Pariah book cover

The Twilight Pariah

2017

Someone in Time book cover

Someone in Time

Tales of Time-Crossed Romance

2022

The Living Dead book cover

The Living Dead

2008

Rocket Ship to Hell book cover

Rocket Ship to Hell

2013

Uuskummaa? Modernin fantasian antologia book cover

Uuskummaa? Modernin fantasian antologia

2006

Out of Body book cover

Out of Body

2020

Cuentos para Algernon book cover

Cuentos para Algernon

Año IX

2021

Империя мороженого book cover

Империя мороженого

2003

Cuentos para Algernon book cover

Cuentos para Algernon

Año V

2017

The Thyme Fiend book cover

The Thyme Fiend

2015

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten book cover

The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten

2015

Mad Hatters and March Hares book cover

Mad Hatters and March Hares

2017

Apex Magazine Issue 131 book cover

Apex Magazine Issue 131

2022

Big Dark Hole book cover

Big Dark Hole

And Other Stories

2021

The Shadow Year book cover

The Shadow Year

2008

Vanitas book cover

Vanitas

1988

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant book cover

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant

And Other Stories

2002

Ghosts by Gaslight book cover

Ghosts by Gaslight

2011

The Best of Jeffrey Ford book cover

The Best of Jeffrey Ford

2020

The Starry Rift book cover

The Starry Rift

Tales of New Tomorrows

2008

Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 1 book cover

Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 1

2018

The Cosmology of the Wider World book cover

The Cosmology of the Wider World

2005

Crackpot Palace book cover

Crackpot Palace

2012

Lightspeed Magazine, June 2012 book cover

Lightspeed Magazine, June 2012

2012

Eclipse Four book cover

Eclipse Four

2010

Drowned Worlds book cover

Drowned Worlds

2016

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy book cover

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

2020

Ahab's Return book cover

Ahab's Return

or, The Last Voyage

2018

120 Murders book cover

120 Murders

Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era

2025

The Beyond book cover

The Beyond

2001

Memoranda book cover

Memoranda

1999

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