In the Country of Tattooed Men and Other Cyphers

A collection of stories.

Contents:

• Truman Capote's Trilby: The Facts
• In the Country of Tattooed Men
• Surfing
• Spanish Style
• Island with the Stink of Ghosts
• Alien Embassy
• Triptych: Black Wedding, Murderer's Walk, Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands
• The Stray
• Filming the Making of the Filming of the Making of Fitzcarraldo
• The Men's Room
• The Green Man Tennis Club
• Feral Moon
• Dop*elgan*er
• Murders in the White Garden
• The River Sailor's Wife
• 1948
• Fossil
• Usurper
• Networks
• The Thunder of the Captains
• Hobblythick Lane
• Giant
• Beyond Byzantium
• Spiral Sands
• On the Watchtower at Plataea
• The Glory of the Seas
• The Wall
• Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop
• X-Calibre
• The Human Child
• The Phoenix Man
• Bronze Casket for a Mummified Shrew-Mouse
• Blood Orange