Little Doors

Here are 17 new stories from a writer whose work has been praised by William Gibson as "spooky, haunting, hilarious." In the title story ofLittle Doors, a professor of children’s literature discovers a bizarre synchronicity between a lost text and his illicit relationship with a student. In another story, a boy is born without a brain and his skull is invaded by a group of wild animals. Another chronicles an all-night drive through a Manhattan distinctly different from – but strangely similar to – our own. All of these stories are replete with chaos, human oddities, and the unruly energy of a Tom Waits song, forming an exhilarating collection from a truly creative force in contemporary fiction. The master of "trailer park science fiction", Di Filippo is a two-time finalist for the Nebula Award and finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award.

"[Di Filippo] channelsurfs postmodern apocalypse, brilliantly." – Jonathan Lethem

Contents:

• Little Doors
• Billy
• Moloch
• The Grange
• Sleep Is Where You Find It (cowritten by Marc Laidlaw)
• The Horror Writer
• My Two Best Friends
• The Death of Salvador Dali
• Our House
• Jack Neck and the Worry Bird
• Stealing Happy Hours
• Singing Each to Each
• Rare Firsts
• Return to Cockaigne
• The Short Ashy Afterlife of Hiram P. Dottle
• Slumberland
• Mehitabel in Hell