The Jaguar Hunter

The Jaguar Hunter

Dust-jacket illustration by Jeffrey K. Potter for The Jaguar Hunter
Author	Lucius Shepard
Illustrator	Jeffrey K. Potter
Cover artist	Jeffrey K. Potter
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction, horror short stories
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	May 1987
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xii, 404 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-87054-154-4

The Jaguar Hunter is a collection of science fiction and horror stories by American author Lucius Shepard. It was released in May, 1987 and was the author's first book published by Arkham House . It was published in an edition of 3,194 copies. The stories originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Universe (Terry Carr's anthology series) and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Contents

1. Foreword by Michael Bishop
2. "The Jaguar Hunter"
3. "The Night of White Bhairab"
4. "Salvador"
5. "How the Wind Spoke at Madaket"
6. "Black Coral"
7. "R & R"
8. "The End of Life as We Know It"
9. "A Traveler's Tale"
10. "Mengele"
11. "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule"
12. "A Spanish Lesson"

Reprints

Arkham House

• 2nd printing, 1987 - 1,508 copies.

Others

• London: Paladin (trade paperback), May 1988.
• New York: Bantam (trade paperback), May 1989.
• New York: Four Walls Eight Windows (paperback), June 2001.

Awards

• 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

References

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 140-141. ISBN 1-55742-005-X. 
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 56. 
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 156-157. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 132. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4. 

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