Njàbò: Short Story

by Claude Lalumière

An artist suspects that her daughter is secretly the avatar of an ancient elephant god intent on vengeance and the destruction of human civilization. From Objects of Worship, this story is part of a “ potent, memorable” (New York Review of Science Fiction) speculative fiction collection by Claude Lalumière.

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50 pages, ebook

First published February 19, 2013

About the author

Montreal writer Claude Lalumière is the author of the story collections Objects of Worship , Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes , and Altre persone / Other Persons and of the mosaic works The Door to Lost Pages and Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment . He has edited fourteen anthologies, including two Aurora Award—nominated volumes in the Tesseracts series. His first fiction – “Bestial Acts” – appeared in Interzone in 2002, and he has since published more than 100 stories; his work has been translated into French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Serbian, Hungarian, Romanian, and Russian and adapted for stage, screen, audio, and comics.