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Mixing the sublimity of fair-weather skies with the nightmarish violence of electric storms, Balcony of Fog illuminates the tension between the power of love and the love of power.

“Powerful and complex.” —Library Journal

Now available as a flipback book. Sporting a compact landscape design with ultra-thin paper, it’s easy to hold in one hand and small enough to slip into your pocket.

With wild imagination and blazing insight, Shapero depicts the inner workings of human desire, probing the depths of our buried passions, and revealing their potential to annihilate us, or set us free.

“Shapero displays an impressive command of the unconscious.” —Kirkus Reviews

Whimsical and outlandish but also timely and dead serious, Arms from the Sea plunges into imagined realms of possibility, pointing to what it might mean to redeem a desolate world.

“Arms from the Sea is a tangible encounter with the creative spirit.” —Moses Hacmon

Now available as a flipback book. Sporting a compact landscape design with ultra-thin paper, it’s easy to hold in one hand and small enough to slip into your pocket.

Arms from the Sea: The Music features songs by Orenda Fink, with lyrics by Rich Shapero, that evoke a watery alternate world.

Arms from the Sea: The Music combines Rich Shapero’s fantastical novel with music by Orenda Fink and the Visionary Art of Eugene Von Brunchenhein to create an other-worldly, immersive story experience. The collector’s set includes the novel in hardcover and the full-length music CD.

With epic force and seductive allegory, The Hope We Seek transports us to a netherworld of danger and allure—where arduous labor, sustained by unwavering belief, promises an unearthly reward.

“Shapero is a spellbinding storyteller.” —Howard Frank Mosher

Songs from the Big Wheel, the music of The Hope We Seek, features Marissa Nadler singing alluring songs of the goddess Hope.

The Hope We Seek fuses Rich Shapero’s provocative novel with hypnotic, original music—featuring the vocals of Marissa Nadler—and the Visionary art of Donald Pass. The result is a riveting and fully immersive story experience. The collector’s set includes the novel in softcover and the full-length music CD, Songs from the Big Wheel.

“A Delirious Fusion of Fiction, Music and Art.” —The Village Voice

Told as a parable, and vividly observed, Rich Shapero’s Too Far is an exhilarating and heart-breaking story of an end to innocence that captures the triumphs and follies of the child’s imagination as it struggles to remain boundless and free.

“Full of mystical and imaginative insight.” —Donald Pass

Dawn Remembers, the music of Too Far, features Maria Taylor (Azure Ray) singing Dawn’s recollections of Robbie and Fristeen’s exploration and discoveries.

Rich Shapero’s Too Far seamlessly combines his enchanting novel with original music and stunning visual art to create an immersive story experience.

“Shapero displays an impressive command of the unconscious.” —Kirkus Reviews

The quest for a “bliss beyond fear” drives a young idealist to the Alaskan wilderness where, alone with his dangerous ideas, he transforms himself into a wild creature, prey to a strangely familiar pack of wolves.

This edition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the inception of Wild Animus.

“With prose of a visionary intensity, Shapero paints a dark and complex canvas of Visionary Art storytelling. He is a shaman of the written word.” —Henry Boxer of Henry Boxer Gallery, London

Music that expresses the emotional core of Wild Animus.

Rich Shapero’s Wild Animus is the story of a young idealist, Ransom Altman, whose quest for fundamentals drives him to the Alaskan wilderness where, alone with his dangerous ideas, he transforms himself into a wild creature prey to a strangely familiar pack of wolves.

To tell his story, Shapero has crafted a new art form that intricately interweaves book and music. This limited edition box set includes the complete storytelling experiment—a novel in hardcover and three CDs: The Ram, The Wolves and Animus.

“Powerful and complex.” —Library Journal

Rich Shapero’s Wild Animus is read by actor Peter Coyote, well known for his roles in a broad range of feature films and television.