Pages: 320 pages
ISBN: 0756400090
Publisher: DAW Books Inc.
Publication Date: October 1, 2001

A decade after the Portal opened a gate between Cleveland, Ohio and a universe of mages, elves, and dragons, reporter Kline Maxwell works the political beat for the Cleveland Press and does his best to avoid “fuzzy gnome” stories.

However, when fifteen tons of dragon takes a nose-dive into the Cuyahoga River, killing the supposedly immortal creature, Kline finds himself drawn into the story against his will. Soon, he discovers that the dragon was not just any dragon, and the death was no accident.

Soon he is running from cops, elves and gargoyles— and finds himself wrapped in a web of intrigue that ranges from a network of underground mages, the mayor’s office, the port authority, the possibly-corrupt police Special Paranormal Unit, all the way to the federal government.

Note: This novel is now published as part of the Dragons & Dwarves omnibus.

It’s a provocative world of deadly enchantment in which the dirty game of politics remains the biggest threat of all.
—Locus

Swann’s off-the-wall crazy mixture of the mundane world with worlds too strange to view unafraid reminded me of the finest classic Philip Jose Farmer.

Mary A. Turzillo

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Genrewonk: thoughts and opinions by author S. Andrew Swann » Blog Archive » Titles again · October 17, 2008 at 8:32 am

[…] good news is that DAW’s going to re-issue my two Cleveland Portal novels, Dragons of the Cuyahoga and Dwarves of Whiskey Island in an omnibus edition due out August 2009. […]

Genrewonk » Doing the research · July 22, 2010 at 8:13 am

[…] no, I’m not immune from this.  I’ve been told about the Glock in Dragons of the Cuyahoga many, many times.  Firearms […]

Godzilla, Dragons, and the Difference between SF and Fantasy « Worldbuilding Rules! · February 15, 2011 at 8:34 pm

[…] it first was published (though my original copy is long lost, alas); and S. Andrew Swann‘s The Dragons of the Cuyahoga, which provides a great forensic explanation of how to murder a flying dragon (and which I reviewed […]