Names Deleted from the Prophets Registry
by Brian Collins
An interstellar visitor arrives with a recipe for a different destiny, conjuring an alternate future out of the fractured present.
Liffey Books
New fiction from the outer limits
Liffey Books is an independent publisher of atmospheric and speculative fiction. Our curated collection explores the boundaries of narrative through magical realism, alternate history, and surrealist storytelling.
Camille in the Late Light
by Olga Przybyszewski
Piotr Danzig is an émigré painter in the Normandy countryside who is asked to make a portrait of a mysterious young woman.
The Dream House
by Juliette Gautier
A family on vacation in the Swiss Alps discovers their rented house causes them all to have different versions of the same dream.
Stepsister
by Sheena Colgan
After her mother's death, Dilthey Cook must determine her own role in a family led by a feckless aunt.
Hypnerotomachia
by Thomas Mackey
A rare book thief steals a volume from the early years of printing that leads him to strange and unexpected places.
The Rath
by Brian Collins
A magical tale about a family's love and suffering during the Great Irish Famine, framed as a father's story to console his daughter.
The Italian Novel
by Brian Collins
In 2032, an astronomer discovers a secret about his lover and another Earth-sized planet orbiting the sun.
Spoonbait
by Chauncey Tukworth
A summer job at a Franciscan friary leads to an improbable friendship with a brother hiding a risky secret.
Ex Post Juju
by Toni Brown
In 1966 Oakland, a graduate of the African Peoples Magic Law School must use her peculiar acumen to save her soul group.