This was my first exposure to Gene Wolfe as a short story writer. It left me wanting more. The authors continues to use many of the themes and literary devices from his novels: memory loss; the unreliable narrator; the familiar presented in unfamiliar way; the interaction between the mundane and the fantastic.
The stories weave together science fiction, horror, fantasy and magic realism. A number of the shorter pieces are fun to read but really seem more like exercise in writing. It's in the longer stories that the author hits his stride and these are pure gold.
I especially loved The Lost Pilgrim. It's setting in ancinet Greece and
There is is a ravenous shark god in The Tree is My Hat and mad bad voodoo in Houston, 1943.
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