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"-Art today? The uneven teeth showed in a grin through the smoke. -Art today is spelled with an f."

"It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least."

the size of this guy's imagination is kind of frightening.

wow, this guy's for real.

it's a treat to read these essays in print after following haney for so long on the internet. also: what a great cover!! i wonder who designed it. charlotte howard. hmm.

oh wow, the first story was amazing. like ligotti written by hemingway. gave me chills.

sure are a lotta words in this book!

A night train can be the loneliest place in the world when you look out the window and all you see is darkness moving fast.

well hello harlan ellison! that's quite a voice you have there!

If there isn't any magic in the sunlight, I want there to be some in the dark. - Ramsey Campbell

"best crime novel ever written" -elmore leonard... got my attention.

boats, boats, lotsa boats...

ships seem to be made out of lots of parts with names.

this book is amazing. david mamet was right.

craziest haunted typewriter book i've ever read.

Along the road there came a stranger in a land where strangers were rare and suspect."

so far, so awesome.

i wish people wouldn't write stories about people riding dragons.

keep going, going on, call that going, call that on

sigh.

well, we hit the pynchonesque transvestite-spy part, and the interminable-locker-room-conversation.... still better than 100y solitude, tho.

better than i expected! lots of words, yes, but also lots of characters and stories. keep your fingers crossed. 1025 more pages.