Governor and Other Stories

An Anthology of Stories as only Tim Powers fantasy grandmaster can provide!

Nine wild visions from the mind of Tim Powers!

From a sorcerer’s den in 19th century London, to two orphan girls fighting a psychic parasite in post WWI Paris, to raising the dead in modern Los Angeles, to a haunted sea voyage in the afterlife, these stories will transport you from the ordinary world to wonders that lie just beyond it.

• On an infinitely big ship carrying souls to an ominous afterlife, one soul tries to turn back.

• A man with second sight works to get justice for the ghost of a murdered woman.

• The son of a recently deceased Los Angeles sorcerer fights to protect his sister from his father’s predatory spirit.

• Raising the ghost of a murdered scientist inadvertently opens a parallel world.

• The son of a famous 1920s painter fights to resist possession by his father’s ghost.

• A sorcery-savvy crime lord in 1810 London kindles intelligence in the tabula rasa mind of a half-wit beggar, with unexpected results.

• The ransom in a kidnapping is a mummified oracular head.

• An antediluvian chamber in which man has never set foot offers “uncollapsed probabilities” of new world, and a charlatan clergyman tries to use it to become God.

• Two fugitive girls in WWI Paris confront a psychic parasite.