Tanith Lee

First trade papberback edition. Unread. Fantasy (#7451) ISBN: 1585674559

"A Bed of Earth is a haunting journey to a parallel version of sixteenth-century Venice, where a fierce territorial rivalry between two noble families unearths a supernatural force from beneath the placid surface of the canals and rotting under-structure of the city. The struggle between the two families for space on the Isle of the Dead, the over-crowded burial ground for generations of Venetian nobility, boils over and a fourteen-year-old girl is forced to pay the ultimate price. As the years pass on, parties complicit in her disappearance begin to suffer the consequences in a series of shocking deaths. A humble apprentice gravedigger is left to sort out the mysteries and subdue the ancient terror that threatens to destroy the entire republic.

First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Brodart. Fantasy (#10003) ISBN: 0312153120

First US edition hardcover. Unread. Fine in fine dust jacket. Science Fiction (#238) ISBN:

First trade paperback edition. Unread. Fantasy (#7452) ISBN: 1585674257

Volpa is a strangely beautiful servant girl who glows with an inhuman inner fire. The mesmerizing titles of the Secret Books of Venus series are a fantastical alternate to historical Italy based on the phases of alchemy and the four primal elements.

First edition hardcover. Unread. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fantasy (#9495) ISBN: 1585674745

Secret Books of Venus #4. Tanith Lee concludes her compelling Secret Books of Venus quartet with a haunting and suspenseful tale set in her brilliantly reimagined alternate Venice. Centuries into the future, the sunken city of Venus has been salvaged from beneath the sea and rebuilt there under a dome, where it is supported by a vast network of computers that regulate weather, noise, and the most precious undersea commodity of all-air. It is here that a macabre experiment takes place. Conducted by geneticists at the university, it consists of the resurrection of two lost souls, both murdered in their times: Jula, a first-century gladiatrix, and Cloudio Del Nero, the eighteenth-century composer who met his fate in Lee's acclaimed first volume of the Venus series. An unexplained catastrophe occurs, claiming several lives. Was it merely an accident, computer failure, or has the experiment unleashed an airborne virus? Or is there an even more sinister danger afoot, a force from beyond that threatens the survival of Venus itself? To answer these questions, a traveler from the surface is forced to confront mysteries in his own past that have remained buried, and to reveal the connection that ties him to the unavenged spirits wreaking havoc on the doomed city.