A Wereshark's Memoir

Novelette edition. Expanding upon "A Wereshark's Memoir," winner of the best science fiction & fantasy short story in the 25th Annual Critters Readers' Poll (2022). The haunting tale of an immortal sea captain through the ages. "In his magnum opus Ethics published posthumously in 1677, Spinoza argues that God is substance. Evil is substance in A Wereshark's Memoir by Justin Sloane. Original, frightening, and beautiful, this work is a study into the impossibility of evil to reign over the human race. It is a fiction of the open wound. It hurts and it makes you invent a therapy to alleviate pain. Often this is impossible. In a way, it is a subtle analysis of what society suffers from today. As Justin Sloane puts it, 'Time is neither friend nor foe. But it can be made either.'"-Zdravka Evtimova, 4x best novel of Bulgaria and author of He May Wear My Silence "With all the linguistic beauty of scientific romance, and a splash of cosmic horror, Mr. Sloane takes us on an aquatic romp through piracy, love, and death. Fans of William Hope Hodgson will want to devour this tale."-Jean-Paul L. Garnier, editor of Star*Line magazine and author of Garbage In, Gospel Out "Justin Sloane's A Wereshark's Memoir is a true megalodon of a novelette, howling hammerheaded through the centuries, timeless like that eldest breed named for Greenland. Equal parts werewolf, shark, and swashbuckler who befriends Blackbeard himself, Sloane's narrator, sea-bewitched, bioluminescent shape-shifter, proves at least as haunted as a Ulysses unable ever to return home."-Dr. Matt Schumacher, editor of Phantom Drift: A Journal of New Fabulism and author of The Fire Diaries: Poems