... 22 short, potent stories ... they force the reader to constantly question what is real and what is imagined. Evenson accomplishes this feat by lulling the reader into a fugue-like state with his otherworldly imaginative prose, and like his predecessors Ballard and Poe, his unparalleled talent allows the reader to empathize with all characters — real and imaginary ... proves, once again, that Brian Evenson is a master of short fiction.
Brian Evenson whittles his unclassifiable, elliptical tales onto the page with an exacting obsessiveness normally associated with brain surgery ... A few of the stories read like arthroscopic probes into the subconscious with the guiding lights dimmed a little low, but Evenson’s inventiveness, literary skill and mordant wit are always on full display.
