"Your mother needed you to be a prince. When your father was slain and your mother fled into exile, the prophecy was her only comfort. The child in her belly would be a prince, it said, who would wield his father's sword, avenge his death and take back his throne. But when the time came, your mother didn't have a boy. She had you"--Page 4 of cover.

"Deep in a maze of musty, forgotten hallways, Mudito rummages through piles of old newspapers. The mute caretaker of a crumbling former abbey, he is hounded by a coven of ancient witches who are bent on transforming him, bit by bit, into the terrifying imbunche: a twisted monster with all of its orifices sewn up, buried alive in its own body. Once, Mudito walked upright and spoke clearly; once he was the personal assistant to one of Chile's most powerful...

"It's 1952 and Frank Danby has been looking over his shoulder for the last ten years, forced to lead an itinerant life, getting work wherever he can while trying to keep one step ahead of the police. Returning to London, he finds a job in an East End pub, where he becomes entangled with Grace, the young and beautiful wife of the landlord. Then the law comes knocking. Facing a justice system prejudiced against him, Frank must find a way to escape the...

"The myth of an epic, public life--its triumphs and tragedies--is a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of such a life and attendant fame of an extraordinary, and completely made up, man. Born in Nashville in 1940 and adopted by a wealthy San Francisco couple, Roger Orr--"Roar"--became an underground stand-up comedian with a cult following while still in his teens, segueing to an acclaimed songwriter in the Sixties....

"Behold, puny mortal! The eldritch tome clutched in your feeble hands comes from a nameless dimension beyond your comprehension! It follows the adventures of one Mr. Maggor Thoom, former star employee of a living black hole's Insanity Acquisition Department. Upon realizing his workplace enthusiasm has mysteriously vanished, Mr. Thoom sets off to rediscover it...on a small, smooth, mostly water covered sphere known as 'Earth'."--Page 4 of cover.

"It's a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily depopulated public park, waiting to meet someone who never shows, he will sift through the pieces and traverse the baroque landscape of his own thoughts: the theology of nosiness, the beauty of the arbutus tree, the pathos of Gene Hackman, the theory of quantum immortality, Louis Riel's letter to...

"After a tragic incident that left her a deep scar not only in her soul, but also on her face, Sage began to shun people. She bakes bread at night and sleeps during the day. One day, she meets Josef Weber, an elderly school teacher, and becomes close to him despite the age difference. Sage feels like life has finally given her a chance to heal. However, everything changes on the day when Josef confidentially reveals his past. It turns out that this...