Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight

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Here’s another story by Avram Davidson, whose “The Golem” appeared earlier in this anthology. Many a Grand Master pro­duces weak or inferior work in the last few years of his life, but in this, as in so much else, Davidson was far from typical—in fact, toward the end of his long career, Davidson produced some of his best work ever, in a series of stories—that started appearing in the last years of the 1970s and continued through to the early 1990s (the last of them was published in 1993, just before his death)—that detail the strange adventures of Jack Limekiller.

The Limekiller stories are set against the lushly evocative background of “British Hidalgo,” Davidson’s vividly realized, richly imagined version of one of those tiny, eccentric Central American nations that exist in near-total isolation on the edge of the busy twentieth-century world ... a place somehow at once flamboyant and languorous, where strange things can—and do— happen…

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