The Complete Butcher's Tales

Rikki Ducornet

earliest edition we have, 1994 Dalkey Archive Press, 1999 paperback 172 pages

In the fantastic tradition of Borges, Bruno Schulz, Angela Carter, and H. P. Lovecraft, here are nearly sixty unforgettable stories that ignore the confines of space and time to offer, among other times and places: a cabinet of curiosities in contemporary Cairo, an alchemical ceiling in 18th-century Naples, the hallucinatory inner worlds of psychotics, anthropomorphic planets, and an Old West ruled by necromancy. Thi...

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The Complete Butcher's Tales paperback · 1999 · Dalkey Archive Press · 172 pages · 9781564782298
The Complete Butcher’s Tales hardcover · 1994 · Dalkey Archive Press · 162 pages · 9781564780430

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