Dry Water

Nominated for the 1998 World Fantasy Award.

Lightning chases Larry Ngitis to Dry Water, New Mexico, a town with a reputation for hauntings, unexplained weather, and vanishing treasure hunters. A shy author and reluctant psychic, Larry has the unsettling ability to see how people will die.

In Dry Water there are rumors of a fabled spring of “water that cannot be drunk,” flowing through a realm where the living and dead mingle, causing ripples in history and wrinkles in time … and Larry is destined to locate this remarkable waterway.

Larry’s arrival, however, has not gone unnoticed by two of Dry Water’s more unconventional Raja, “Daughter of the Terror Winds,” a local celebrity and witch who seeks the water’s power to erase humankind’s future by altering the past … and Nikolos, her lover/nemesis, an ageless necromancer whose eternal mission is the destruction of all prophets, including Larry.

But, while clueless, Larry Ngitis is far from helpless, as he is joined by otherworldly allies—the ghost of a gunslinger and a Navajo shaman—who aid him on his terrifying and essential journey.