"I've edited the Borgo Press Imprint of Wildside Press for three years now. Ardath Mayhar is one of my great 'finds.' Her work is uniformly excellent, uniformly unique, uniformly unexpected. Her stories and novels are treasures to be savored. This new collection of 29 tales, many of them previously unpublished, includes classic horror, regional fiction, vampire stories, traditional high fantasy, and pieces that defy any attempt at even rough classification. They share a quality of writing and a quality of observation that most writers could not attain in a millennium of trying." -- Robert Reginald