The Wolfe at the Door (2023)

Publication(s)

Tor Hardcover

• 2023 Tom Doherty Associates (Tor hardcover), ISBN 9781250846204, October 2023; dust jacket

Contents

• On a Vacant Face a Bruise
• Bea and Her Bird Brother
• Memorare
• A Method Bit in "B"
• Tarzan of the Grapes
• The Little Stranger
• Christmas Inn
• The Gunner's Mate
• The Grave Secret
• The Old Woman in the Young Woman
• Dormanna
• Easter Sunday
• Archangel Gabriel
• Last Night in the Garden of Forking Tongues
• Maybe We've Been Doing It Wrong
• Connect the Dots
• Planetarium in Orbit
• Remembrance to Come
• The On-Deck Circle
• Hopkins Dalhousie
• How I Got Three Zip Codes
• Screen Test
• Volksweapon
• The Largest Luger
• The Last Casualty of Cambrai
• Last Drink Bird Head
• Mountains Like Mice
• The Green Wall Said
• Thou Spark of Blood
• Unrequited Love
• Loco Parentis
• Going to the Beach
• It's Very Clean
• Frostfree
• The Giant
• The Magic Animal
• The Hour of the Sheep
• The Woman Who Went Out
• Leif in the Wind
• The Sea of Memory
• At the Point of Capricorn

Publisher's Blurb

An all new collection from an American literary icon

The circus comes to town… and a man gets to go to the stars.

A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate.

A swordfighter pens his memoirs… and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword.

Welcome to Gene Wolfe’s playground, a place where genres blend and a genius’s imagination straps you in for the ride of your life.

The Wolfe At The Door is a brand new collection from one of America’s premiere literary giants, showcasing material never been before seen. Short stories, yes, but also poems, essays and ephemera that gives us a window into the mind of a literary powerhouse whose world view changed generations of readers in their perception of the universe.