finally got around to reading this after first discovering it on the jones and newman 100 best horror stories of all time list about ten years ago.great list, by the way... led me to The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories, and The Cellar, among others. really, really, really good list, for the most part. you can check it out here if you want:http://home.comcast.net/~netaylor1/jo...but as for this book... it's kinda stinky. which is sad, because i have a lot of respect for michael bishop. No Enemy But Time was pretty good, if i remember right. and he wrote a book about philip k. dick (Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas), so obviously he has good taste. and this actually is a pretty disturbing book... for a while. until it suddenly just gets really boring. i think about the time when i finally realized that we were gonna be doing the "who is writing this book, the typewriter or the lady? and is it real or a dream or what?" for the whole damn thing. that and the monkey. got tired of the monkey. though i really liked the whole sucking-blood-from-the-finger thing.
