Dark Delicacies®
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Henghis Hapthorn is the foremost penetrator of mysteries and uncoverer of secrets in a decadent, far-future Old Earth, one age before Jack Vance's Dying Earth. A superb rationalist, he has long disdained the notion that the universe has an alternative organizing principle: magic. But now a new age is dawning, overturning the very foundations of Hapthorn's existence, and he must struggle to survive in a world where all the rules are changing.
Hapthorn decides to leave Old Earth, seeking to solve the mystery of Hespira, an ungainly off-world woman who has lost her memory. The investigation takes him down The Spray to the rank-obsessed world of Ikkibal and the rustic Shannery, where he unravels Hespira's role in a deadly feud between aristocrats. But behind the scenes an unseen antagonist is plotting the discriminator's destruction.
Cover Art: John Fisk
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Carroll & Graf edition: 2005 Ace mass-market edition: September 2007 JABberwocky eBook edition: October 2017
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eISBN: 978-1-625672-90-2
“Foreword, Backward, Upside Downward” copyright © 2005 by Richard Matheson. “Introduction” copyright © 2005 by Jeff Gelb. “The Reincarnate” copyright © 2005 by Ray Bradbury. “Black Mill Cove” copyright © 2005 by Lisa Morton. “Kaddish” copyright © 2005 by Whitley Strieber. “The Seer” copyright © 2005 by Robert Steven Rhine. “The Fall” copyright © 2005 by D. Lynn Smith. “Part of the Game” copyright © 2005 by F. Paul Wilson. “The Bandit of Sanity” copyright © 2005 by Roberta Lannes. “My Thing Friday” copyright © 2005 by Brian Lumley. “Out Twelve-Steppin’, Summer of AA” copyright © 2005 by Nancy Holder. “Bloody Mary Morning” copyright © 2005 by John Farris. “A Gentleman of the Old School” copyright © 2005 by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. “The Announcement” copyright © 2005 by Ramsey Campbell. “The Outermost Borough” copyright © 2005 by Gahan Wilson. “Dark Delicacies of the Dead” copyright © 2005 by Rick Pickman. “DePompa” copyright © 2005 by William F. Nolan. “The Pyre and Others” copyright © 2005 by David J. Schow. “All My Bloody Things” copyright © 2005 by Steve Niles. “The Diving Girl” copyright © 2005 by Richard Laymon. “Haeckel’s Tale” copyright © 2005 by Clive Barker. “Before You Leave” copyright © 2005 by Del Howison.
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Electronic version by Baen Books
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