For more than three decades this singular collection of stories in which the New Gods of freeways and slot

machines, internal combustion deities and evil so enormous that it swallows the streets in shadow has compelled the

attention of not only readers of imaginative bent, but the praise of hard-line literary critics. One cannot codify modern

literature of the fantastic without including a reference or selection from this dark book of godly and troubling stories

that will not be ignored.