Avram Davidson

A Few of Avram Davidson's Other Works:

Adventures in Unhistory — (1991) Publisher: Not a novel, not a book of short stories, Adventures in Unhistory is a book of the fantastic—a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and—revealed at last—the Secret of Hyperborea. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as “one of the great short story writers of our times.” Who, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic? Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, these facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, style—the late, great Avram Davidson’s unique voice. That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle’s Preface to this volume, “cries out to be read aloud.”

The Avram Davidson Treasury — (1990) Publisher: Avram Davidson was erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his wonderful stories to obscure pulp magazines. Now his estate and his friends have brought together a definitive collection of his finest work, each story introduced by an SF luminary: writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, and dozens of others.

The Other Nineteenth Century — (2001) With The Other Nineteenth Century, we offer a new collection focussing on Avram Davidsons distinctive historical fantasies, tales of strange Mitteleuropas, and of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier.

The Boss in the Wall — (1998) Publisher: Professor Vlad Smith is on a terrifying quest, one that will take him from the halls of our most hallowed institutions to the most run-down of old houses in blighted neighborhoods. A mysterious committee, shredded yellowed newspapers, a daguerrotype of a Confederate soldier, a headless corpse and a corpseless head.... These are the clues which Smith must piece together to save his sanity and his daughter, and uncover the terrible secret of the Boss in the Wall.