Product Description: "[Lock's fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights." --NPR "[Lock] is one of the most interesting writers out there." --"Reader's Digest" "Lock writes some of the most deceptively beautiful sentences in contemporary fiction...read more

Product Description: [Read by Grover Gardner]''The Boy in His Winter'' is a tour de force work of imagination, beauty, and courage that reenvisions a great American literary classic for our time. Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history...read more

Product Description: “Make[s] Huck and Jim so real you expect to get messages from them on your iPhone.” —SCOTT SIMON, NPR Weekend Edition“Brilliant. . . . The Boy in His Winter is a glorious meditation on justice, truth, loyalty, story, and the alchemical effects of love, a reminder of our capacity to be changed by the continuously evolving world ‘when it strikes fire against the mind's flint,’ and by profoundly moving novels like this...read more

Product Description: “Topical, astonishing and provocative . . . a masterful collection.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers (starred review)“[Lock’s stories] are gems, rich in imagination and language . . . For all their convolutions of space and time, these stories are remarkably easy to follow and savor...read more

Product Description: Fiction. "There are moments that remind me of Sax Rohmer or early 20th century science fiction, bits and pieces of language that seem to come out of Jules Verne or Gaston LeRoux. The language itself is quite stylized, replete with a carefully eccentric vocabulary that Lock does very well...read more

Product Description: Fiction. Norman Lock's GRIM TALES is a mythological catalog of the peculiar, a string of strange, often murderous urban myths. It comes on fast and dirty, wasting no time in lunging at your throat.... GRIM TALES is populated end to end with the magical and the bizarre: shape-shifting, witchery, underwater cities, indoor rain, beds that contain oceans, murderous objects, all manner of disappearance...read more

Product Description: Fiction. In Java, a master of the shadow-puppet theater seeks to possess--by his art--a woman, who perishes as though by the contagion of his unnatural desire. SHADOWPLAY is a meditation on story-telling as an act of seizure, a parable of obsession and of the danger of confounding the real with its representations...read more

Product Description: Norman Lock's Trio combines his acclaimed Joseph Cornell's Operas and E‰migres with Grim Tales, his riff on the Brothers Grimm. These masterful works of the imagination demonstrate Lock's innate ability to transform the fanciful into the tactile...read more

Product Description: A black comedy touched with absurdity and a philosophical bent that puts the torch to middle-class complacency.