Jeffrey E. Barlough (born 1953) is an American

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, and novelist. In 1986, Barlough was a lecturer at the

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. He is also the author of several

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novels that comprise his Western Lights series, set in an

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in which the last ice age never ended.

Selected bibliography

Medical books

* Manual of Small Animal Infectious Diseases (Editor) (1988) *

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Book of Dogs: The Complete Medical Reference Guide for Dogs and Puppies (Editor, with Mordecai Siegal) (1995) *

Book of Horses: A Complete Medical Reference Guide for Horses and Foals (Editor, with Mordecai Siegal and Victoria Blankenship Siegal) (1996)

Western Lights novels

The Western Lights series is a

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series which takes place in a world where the last Ice Age never ended, and in which an unknown cataclysm called the "sundering" - believed to be a volcanic eruption or a meteor strike - obliterated most life on Earth and worsened the Ice Age. The surviving English colonies along the west coast of North America are isolated from the outside world and, two hundred years after the sundering, remain culturally and technologically in the

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. The series takes its name from the fact that the west coast of North America is "the sole place on earth where the lights still shine at night." * ''Dark Sleeper'' (1998, first trade edition 2000) * ''The House in the High Wood: A Story of Old Talbotshire'' (2001) * ''Strange Cargo'' (2004) * ''Bertram of Butter Cross'' (2007) * ''Anchorwick'' (2008) * ''A Tangle in Slops'' (2011) * ''What I Found at Hoole'' (2012) * ''The Cobbler of Ridingham'' (2014)Briefly reviewed by

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in the June 2015 issue of ''

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'', pp.107–111. * ''Where the Time Goes'' (2016) * ''The Thing in the Close'' (2018) * ''Hooting Grange'' (2021)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barlough, Jeffrey E. Cornell University alumni 1953 births Living people American virologists American veterinarians 20th-century American biologists 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American male writers American fantasy writers Dark fantasy writers