Viriconium Nights

Viriconium Nights is a collection by M. John Harrison published in 1984.

Viriconium Nights is a collection of seven stories which take place inside the metropolis of Viriconium and its surrounding area.^[1]

• The Lamia and Lord Cromis
• Lamia Mutable
• Viriconium Knights
• Events Witnessed from a City
• The Luck in the Head
• The Lords of Misrule
• In Viriconium
• Strange Great Sins

• The Luck in the Head
• The Lamia and Lord Cromis
• Strange Great Sins
• Viriconium Knights
• The Dancer from the Dance
• Lords of Misrule
• A Young Man's Journey to Viriconium

Dave Langford reviewed Viriconium Nights for White Dwarf #70, and stated that "They have a precise, exotic sleaziness, leaving you with uncomfortable images: insect-masks recur, and the Mari Llwyd (the rib-boned horse-skull of folklore), and technological decay (as with the unforgettable, filthy power-weapon of the first story). I like them. I think."^[1]

New York: Ace (paperback), 1984 (dedicated to Algis Budrys); revised/definitive edition, (1st hardcover ed) London: Gollancz, 1985 (dedication to Budrys removed). The stories in the British hardcover edition are revised and the author's preferred texts.

• Review by Brian Stableford (1985) in Fantasy Review, February 1985
• Review by Baird Searles (1985) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1985
• Review by Barbara Davies (1985) in Vector 128