A literary curiosity with a Steely Dan connection: Rikki Ducornet is the real-life “Rikki” behind “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.” Donald Fagen met her when they were students at Bard College — years before Ducornet became the acclaimed, wonderfully unconventional novelist behind The Complete Butcher’s Tales.
This expanded, revised edition collects the complete short stories of one of the most immaginative writers of our time.
In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, among other times and places: a cabinet of curiosities in contemporary Cairo, an alvhemical ceiling in 18th-century Naples, the hallucinatory inner worlds of psychotics, anthropomorphic planets, and an Old West ruled by necromancy.
"Ducornet here offers a brilliant, refreshingly varied collection," said Publishers Weekly. "Garishly vivid, splendid little nightmares," said Library Journal.
