The Door to Lost Pages

• published by CZP (2011) – out of print
• paperback/hardcover/ebook (limited quantities of the paperback are available directly from the author)
• introduction by Paul Di Filippo
• Spanish translation by Aurora Carrillo as La Puerta de Páginas Perdidas (Dokusou Ediciones 2019)
• StoryBundle ebook edition, 2020
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Step through the door to Lost Pages and escape a life you never wanted . . .
On her tenth birthday, Aydee runs away from home and from her neglectful parents. At first, surviving alone on the streets is harsh, but a series of frightening, bewildering encounters with strange primordial creatures leads her to a bookshop called Lost Pages, where she steps into a fantastic, sometimes dangerous, but exciting life. Aydee grows up at the reality-hopping Lost Pages, which seems to attract a clientele that is both eccentric and desperate. She is repeatedly drawn into an eternal war between enigmatic gods and monsters, until the day she is confronted by her worst nightmare: herself.

contents

• • prologue: Fuel for the Dark Dreams of Yamesh-Lot
  • chapter 1: Bestial Acts
  • chapter 2: Let Evil Beware!
  • chapter 3: Dregs
  • chapter 4: Dark Tendrils
  • chapter 5: Lost Girls
  • coda: The Lost and Found of Years
  • hardcover extra: original Interzone version of “Bestial Acts” (2002)