Crackpot Palace

<p>Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink in his pen....A rare and wonderful talent.<br />--Jonathan Carroll author of <em>The Wooden Sea</em></p><p>Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford--along with imaginative provocative mesmerizing and brilliant. His powerful dark fantasy <em>The Physiognomy</em> was a <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book of the Year; his novel <em>The Girl in the Glass</em> won the Edgar(R) Award mystery and crime fiction's most prestigious prize. <em>Crackpot Palace</em> is Ford's fourth superb collection of short fiction and in it his prodigious talent shines as brightly as ever. Here are twenty tales both strange and wonderful filled with mad scientists vampires lost souls and Native American secrets from an author who has been glowingly compared to Kafka Dante and Caleb Carr (<em>The Alienist</em>).<br /></p>