"Jeffrey Ford is one of the few writers who uses wonder instead of ink
in his pen....A rare and wonderful talent."
--Jonathan Carroll, author of The Wooden Sea
Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work
of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford--along 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(R) Award, mystery and
crime fiction's most prestigious prize. Crackpot Palace is Ford's
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).