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"Searingly honest, brilliant and disturbing. Brad Phillips peels back the skin and bone and stares right into the human soul." (Anthony Bourdain) Brad Phillips' collection of short stories adeptly walks a very thin line between taboo and propriety, with rigorous self-awareness and generosity. By confusing ideas around fiction and autobiography, Phillips writes with painful sincerity about shame, addiction, trauma, and the more troubling outreaches of sexual desire, with wit that is at odds with the subject matter. Brad Phillips is a well-known Canadian artist.

The unifying factor of this collection is that, without exception, every author included here was in some way or another involved with or interested in the occult. In some cases, they were members of an occult organization, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Theosophical Society, or similar such groups. Others simply had a strong personal interest in the subject matter or practiced some form of the esoteric sciences in private.

Paul Auster, como la mayoría de los niños estadounidenses, creció jugando con pistolas de juguete e imitando a los vaqueros de las películas del Oeste. Pero también aprendió que las familias pueden quedar destrozadas como consecuencia de la violencia: su abuela disparó y mató a su abuelo cuando su padre tenía solo seis años, algo que afectó a la vida de toda la familia durante décadas.