Arthur Conan Doyle takes Professor Challenger to the South of France to meet Professor Picard, Irene Adler and a horror from the ancient past. (©A treat... read it and grin,© Tangent Online.) What extraordinary secrets lie in the weave of an ancient carpet? (Voted Best Story of 1998, Interzone; ©particularly strong,© scifi.com.) A young boy accidentally swallows a fairy. (©An intriguing glimpse into a different world,© BestSF.net; ©A disturbing fairy tale,© Strange Horizons.) Mysterious cocoons fall to Earth bringing alien revelations. (©Vivid and engaging,© Tangent Online.) What do corpses do to other corpses at night? (©Gripping... disquieting,© Tangent Online.) In cyberspace all intelligences are edible. (©Worthy of Philip K. Dick,© Mauvais Genres.) Fourteen stories by multiple award-winning French science fiction author Jean-Claude Dunyach, including six never before translated. This volume features Unravelling the Thread selected in Year's Best Science Fiction of 1999 and Watch Me When I Sleep included in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror of 2002. In his foreword, David Brin (The Postman, Earth) describes the author as ©one of the most talented imaginations living today© and urges: ©Feast upon the imagination of Jean-Claude Dunyach.©