Horse of a Different Color

"If Philip K. Dick is our homegrown Borges (as Ursula K. Le Guin once said), then Waldrop is our very American magic-realist, as imaginative and playful as early Garcia Marquez or, better yet, Italo Calvino. . . . You never know what he'll come up with next, but somehow it's always a Waldrop story."—Michael Dirda, *The Washington Post*

"Waldrop subtly mutates the past, extrapolating the changes into some of the most insightful, and frequently amusing, stories being written today."—*The Houston Post*

"The most startling, original, and entertaining short story writer in science fiction today."—George R. R. Martin

"It always feels like Christmas when a new Howard Waldrop collection arrives."—Connie Willis

Howard Waldrop's stories are keys to the secrets of the stories *behind* the stories . . . or perhaps the stories *between* the stories everyone else knows. From "The Wolfman of Alcatraz" to a horrifying Hansel and Gretel, from "The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew" to the sixth Marx brother's story of a vaudeville act tracking down the Holy Grail, this new collection is a wunderkammer of strangeness.

**Howard Waldrop**, born in Mississippi and now living in Austin, Texas, is an American iconoclast. His highly original books include *Them Bones* and *A Dozen Tough Jobs*, and the collections *Howard Who?*,* Night of the Cooters*, *Other Worlds*, *Better Lives*, and *Things Will Never Be the Same*. He won the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his novelette "The Ugly Chickens."