The Shors are one of Siberia’s smaller peoples, with a population of about 14,000. They live mainly in the southern part of Western Siberia, in the southern part of the Kemerovo region, an area informally known as Mountainous Shoria. Only a small percentage of the Shors, around 5-10%, is still able to speak Shor as their mother tongue, making it an extremely endangered Turkic language. Apart from many other cultural features this ethnic group is especially well-known for its rich epic tradition. Like epic tales of many other Turkic speaking groups of Siberia, as well as Mongolian heroic epic tales, Shor epics describe mostly two themes, one with the hero’s quest for a wife and the other one where the hero struggles with foreign invaders. But even these two main themes can be and are still realized in hundreds of variations or motif-series, using the whole richness of an epic tradition. All epic texts presented in the book have been recorded by hand by a famous Shor story-teller Vladimir Tannagashev (1932-2007) at the request of this volume’s editor. An epic tale “Kün-Köök who does not see the sun” has appeared recently in a Russian translation, but two other tales, “Chabys-Chapan” and “Altyn-Qosta riding a light-hair bay with yellowish markings,” are being published for the first time. The publication of original Shor texts, edited according to the rules of Shor orthography and punctuation, is supplemented with English translations and ethnolinguistic comments.