Nifft the Lean
World Fantasy Award 1983.
A collection of four related stories.
- Come Then Mortal — We Will Seek Her Soul
- The Pearls of the Vampire Queen (1977)
- The Fishing of the Demon-Sea
- The Goddess in Glass
Follow the adventures of Nifft the Lean, the master thief whose felonious appropriations and larcenous skills will lead you through Stygian realms to challenge your most lurid fantasies and errant imaginings. Places where horror, harm and long eerie calms flow past the traveller in endless, unpredictable succession.
Travel with the man whose long, rawboned, sticky fingers and stark length of arm will lead you down to the vermiculous grottoes of the demon sea, to stand beneath the subworld's lurid sky and battle monsters who seem the spiritual distillations of human evil itself!
We invite you to the very gates of Hell and beyond – come if you dare!
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Michael Shea
Michael Shea (1946-2014) was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author living in California. He has won "year's best" World Fantasy Awards for the novel Nifft the Lean and the novella Growlimb.
Not to be confused with the author of the same Michael Shea, Diplomat.
Nifft the Lean Trilogy
Nifft the Lean Trilogy consists of three primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

