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Chimerascope [ki-meer-uh-skohp] -- a story of many parts...

A young artist hungers to draw you.
A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish.
A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle to save her crew.
The hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between love and revenge.
A mysterious dancer leads a businessman to a most exclusive nightclub.
A man is born each day into a new life--only to die each night.
A sentient aurora threatens the last of humanity.
A Norse god's bar in Toronto hosts an unplanned family reunion.
A woman descends into insanity--or is it the end of the world?
A house as big as the world.

Chimerascope is Doug's first full collection of short fiction, containing sixteen of his best stories, including an award winner, a Best New Horror selection, and eight award finalists. Sixteen stories of fantasy and science fiction that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity's last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions to a dinner where a man loses everything.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Julie E. Czerneda
• Author's Introduction - essay
• Scream Angel - (2003) - novelette
• The Red Bird - (2001) - shortstory
• By Her Hand, She Draws You Down - (2001) - shortstory
• New Year's Eve - (1998) - shortfiction
• The Boys Are Back In Town - (2000) - shortstory
• State of Disorder - (1999) - shortstory
• Nothing - shortstory
• Symphony - (1999) - shortfiction
• Out of the Light - (2007) - shortfiction
• Enlightenment - (2004) - shortstory
• The Last Ride - (2006) - shortstory
• Jigsaw - (2004) - shortstory
• The Dancer at the Red Door - (2007) - novelette
• 16 - Going Harvey in the Big House - (2005) - novelette
• A Taste Sweet and Salty - (2006) - shortfiction
• Memories of the Dead Man - (2005) - shortstory

There are three stories in this collection, and they reach from van Gogh's rural France to the classic travelling fair to the far lost forest, and from timeshift to shapeshift to the activity of luck.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Chaz Brenchley
• Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, by Van Gogh - novelette
• Spirit Dance - (1997) - shortstory
• Going Down to Lucky Town - novelette