Toxine — Richard Calder

In ‘Toxine', a story first published in Interzone: The 4th Anthology, Richard Calder reworks in modern dress some aspects of the myth Offenbach took from Hoffmann and Hoffmann drew from the deep fears of the race; his tale of redressing is poisonous, saturated, decadent as the end of the last century.' â€" John Clute