The Beak Doctor

Synopsis

For years, Eric Basso's novella, The Beak Doctor, has sustained a cult reputation among a hard core of avant-garde writers. This collection of short stories begins with a tale of death and hideous resurrection, moves on through a quest for the great horse who rules a subterranean polar kingdom, an atmospheric cycle of short prose pieces, a tragicomic roman noir set in exotic Istanbul (in which the great horse appears in a new guise), and concludes with the harrowing odyssey of a masked man in a fogbound city turned upside down by a plague of sleeping sickness: The Beak Doctor. From the Back Cover About the Author Eric Basso was born in Baltimore in 1947. His fiction has appeared in the Chicago Review, Fiction International, Central Park, Collages & Bricolages, Asylum, and other publications. His first two collections of poems, Accidental Monsters and The catwalk Watch, are published by Asylum Arts, which will bring out his third collection, The Smoking Mirror, in the summer of 1999, along with Enigmas, his book of short plays. He is the author of twenty-one plays. His critically acclaimed drama trilogy, The Golem Triptych, was published by Asylum Arts in 1994.