Myth, music, and magic-and dreams underfoot

Welcome to Newford-to the music night clubs, the waterfront, as well as the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the contemporary world. Gemmins reside in deserted cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the grey harbor waters and fill up the cold evening with their track. Come satisfy Jilly, painting miracles in the tough city roads; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; as well as the Angel of Grasso Street, gathering the fey as well as the crazy and the indegent and the lost.

Like Mark Helprin’s A Winter’s Tale and John Crowley’s Small, Big, Dreams Underfoot, a assortment of nineteen stories, is a must-read book, not merely for supporters of urban illusion but for all who seek magic in everyday life.