Come meet a Utopian assassin, an aging UFO contactee, a haunted Mohawk steelworker, a time-traveling prizefighter, a yameating Zombie, and a child who loves a frizzled chickenânot to
mention Harry Houdini, Zora Neale Hurston, and all their fellow travelers riding the steamer-trunk imagination of a unique twentyfirst-century fabulist.
From the Florida folktales that inspired âDaddy Mention and the Monday Skullâ (first published in Mojo: Conjure Stories, edited by Nalo Hopkinson) to the imagined story of boxer and historical bit
player Jess Willard in World Fantasy Award winner âThe Pottawatomie Giantâ to Flannery OâConnorâs childhood celebrity in âUnique Chicken Goes in Reverse,â Duncan juxtaposes historical figures with marvels and confabulations.
This new and selected volume of Duncanâs best features two new stories, âJoe Diaboâs Farewellââin which a gang of Native American ironworkers in 1920s New York City go to a showâand the title story
where he reveals what really (might have) happened to Thomas Moreâs head.