From master anthologist Ellen Datlow comes an all-original of weird tales inspired by the strangeness of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.
While the young New York journalist, "Yits", suffers from severe fatigue as a result of excessive work, he decides to take a leave for relaxation and calm, as the doctor advised him to rest in a secluded place with a calm.
Delving into lecturing spiders, Helen of Troy, seaside libraries, computers that fall in love, murder and memory; but most of all humour, and a delight in all that women can be.
Sixteen stories that depict America—and the world—emerging from the wreckage of World War IIFrom a glimpse of Coca-Cola’s first appearance in a remote part of the Arabian desert to the tale of a wealthy, paranoid man building a shelter after the first hydrogen bomb tests, the stories in The Last Supper depict a world coming to grips with the new post-war reality.
