Innocents Aboard (Paperback)

From the Publisher: A collection of twenty-two fantasy and horror stories written during the past ten years includes "The Tree Is My Hat," "The Night Chough," "The Walking Sticks," and "Houston, 1943." By the author of Strange Travelers. Gene Wolfe may be the single best writer in fantasy and SF today. His quotes and reviews certainly support that contention, and so does his impressive short fiction oeuvre. Innocents Aboard gathers fantasy and horror stories from the last decade that have never before been in a Wolfe collection. Highlights from the twenty-two stories include "The Tree is my Hat," adventure and horror in the South Seas, "The Night Chough," a Long Sun story, "The Walking Sticks," a darkly humorous tale of a supernatural inheritance, and "Houston, 1943," lurid adventures in a dream that has no end. This is fantastic fiction at its best.