"Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. --Pablo Picasso These fictions take us in unanticipated directions, the highly imaginative prose delivering a world uniquely his own. -Steve (World Fantasy Award winner and Melanie Tem (World Fantasy and Bram Stoker award-winner) "Gregory Hyde's writing is vivid, sensuous, full of jarring thoughts and images that linger unpleasantly in the mind. This collection is a work of mad genius." -Wil McCarthy, New York Times Notable author of Bloom "Nope, the standard 19th Century Gothic accessorizing isn't here. But the whole claustrophobic feel of oppressively enclosed spaces, whether in the internal or the external landscape, along with the sense of capricious cruelty in a world forsaken by a God who may never have existed in the first place, is not a sensation that evokes unbridled optimism." -Edward Bryant, author of Particle Theory