A collection of thirteen stories, vignettes and difficult to classify texts by Thomas, who is best known for his Punktown novels and stories that mix Lovecraftian horror, SF and any other genre he can get his hands on.
The stories here are equally diverse in content, starting with the whimsical ("These Are The Exhibits") and ending in the sad and horrifying ("Door 7).
As usual with story collections, not every story is a masterpiece, but the good outweighs the bad heavily.
The already mentioned "These Are The Exhibits" sees a woman taking a tour through a very peculiar museum and opens the collection on a lighter note with an undercurrent of sadness.
Further favorites here are:
"Close Enough", a meditation on guilt and memory by way of a slightly different Vietnam war.
and
"The Mask Play Of Hahoe Byeolsin Exorcism", which sees a man on his way to meet his Vietnamese Internet bride stranded in South Korea and (as every good Giallo character would do, too) witnessing a murder. But the story is much more complex than that, as befits something about objectification and "othering".
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