HARPERCOLLINS E-BOOK SPECIAL FEATURE:
Three stories not available in the print edition of this book
But where there’s a monster there’s a miracle.
READING THE ENTRAILS: A RONDEL
They’ll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate…
They do it with mirrors. It’s a cliché, of course, but it’s also…
Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat.
older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter.
Tramps and vagabonds have marks they make on gate posts…
They pulled up most of the railway tracks in the early sixties…
Nobody knew where the toy had come from…
THE GOLDFISH POOL AND OTHER STORIES
It was raining when I arrived in L.A….
“…I wish that you would visit me one day…”
When I was a boy, from time to time…
Later, they would point to his sister’s death, the cancer…
I had this story from my friend Edmund Wyld Esq….
Benjamin Lassiter was coming to the unavoidable conclusion…
There was a computer game, I was given it…
I was nineteen in 1965, in my drainpipe trousers…
ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD AGAIN
It was a bad day: I woke up naked in the bed with a cramp…
Listen, Talbot. Somebody’s killing my people…
WE CAN GET THEM FOR YOU WHOLESALE
Peter Pinter had never heard of Aristippus of the Cyrenaics…
ONE LIFE, FURNISHED IN EARLY MOORCOCK
The Pale albino prince lofted on high his great black sword…
Woken at nine o’clock by the postman…
After all the dreaming is over, after you wake, and leave…
Simon Powers didn’t like sex. Not really…
I wait here at the boundaries of dream…
They had a number of devices that would kill the mouse fast…
Now is a good time to write this down…
WHEN WE WENT TO SEE THE END OF THE WORLD
BY DAWNIE MORNINGSIDE, AGE 11 ¼
What I did on the founders day holiday was, my dad said…
There was an old man with skin baked black by the desert sun…
He had a tattoo on his upper arm, of a small heart…
A few years back all the animals went away.
This is true.
I do not know what manner of things she is. None of us do.
FIFTEEN PAINTED CARDS FROM A VAMPIRE TAROT
“What do you want?”
INT. WEBSTER’S OFFICE. DAY
In the end, the Lord gave Mankind the world.