num_pages: 338
description: Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Fordalong with imaginative provocative mesmerizing and brilliant. His powerful dark fantasy The Physiognomy was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; his novel The Girl in the Glass won the Edgar Award mystery and crime fictions most prestigious prize. Crackpot Palace is Fords 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 (The Alienist).
language: English
title: Crackpot Palace
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks