From one of the great modern masters of the fantastic, “A beautiful, brilliant, meditation on art, love, inspiration and what makes life worthwhile."-- Neil Gaiman "[Carroll's] prose is spare, polished and quick-moving, sometimes lightly comic, always immensely engaging... Mr. Breakfast is pure pleasure to read. It will surprise you, make you laugh and scare you — and then, just when you think it’s over, add several extra twists." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Graham Patterson’s life has hit a dead end. His career as a comedian is failing. The love of his life recently broke up with him and he literally has no idea what to do next. With nothing to lose, he buys a new car and hits the road, planning to drive across country and hopefully figure out his next moves before reaching California. But along the way Patterson does something his old self would never have even considered: he gets tattooed by a brilliant tattoo artist in North Carolina. The decision sets off a series of extraordinary events that changes his life forever in ways he never could have imagined. Among other things, Patterson is gifted with the ability to see in real time three different lives that are available to him. The choice is his: The life he is leading right now, or two very different ones. In all of them there is love or fame and of course danger because once he has chosen, there is no telling what will happen next. Mr. Breakfast is a dazzling, absorbing and deeply moving novel about the choices that we have to confront and face, confirming Jonathan Carroll’s status as one of our greatest and most imaginative storytellers.

“Jonathan Carroll is a cult waiting to be born, a novelist of rare and terrifying power.”—Pat Conroy Ricocheting between Vienna and Los Angeles, between the worlds of desires and dreams, Sleeping in Flame is a hypnotic literary novel with irresistible elements of fantasy and magic. “I envy anyone who has yet to enjoy the sexy, eerie, and addictive novels of Jonathan Carroll.”—The Washington Post Book World “Jonathan Carroll is a master of sunlit surrealism.”—Jonathan Lethem

A compelling novel from a major cult author, mixing crime, thriller and the supernatural

For connoisseurs of imaginative fiction, the novels of Jonathan Carroll are a special treat that occupy a space all their own. His surreal fictions, which deftly mix the everyday with the extraordinary, have won him a devoted following. Now, in Glass Soup , Carroll continues to astound . . . . The realm of the dead is built from the dreams--and nightmares--of the living. Octopuses drive buses. God is a polar bear. And a crowded highway literally leads to hell. Once before, Vincent Ettrich and his lover, Isabelle Neukor, crossed over from life to death and back again. Now Isabelle bears a very special child, who may someday restore the ever-changing mosaic that is reality. Unless the agents of Chaos can lure her back to the land of the dead--and trap her there forever. Glass Soup is another exquisite and singular creation from the author January magazine described as "incapable of writing a bad book much less an uninteresting one."

In resolving the suicide of his friend, Philip Strayhorn explores the dividing line between good and evil in this fantasy novel, from the same author who wrote Sleeping in Flame, Bones of the Moon and Voice of our Shadow. He is the 1988 World Fantasy Award winner for short stories.

"I want you frowning now, knowing something is very wrong with your parachute even before actually pulling the cord and praying it opens. P.S. It won't." So Jonathan Carroll addresses his readers in this much-awaited collection of 20 stories. Author of several wry and dark novels, Carroll has a considerable following, but his books are difficult to pigeonhole, so some horror and fantasy readers are still unfamiliar with him. This collection shows off his talents admirably, in tales that range from bittersweet sadness over God's failing memory, to a disturbing friendship between a dog and a dying child, to a macabre fantasy about how men and women manipulate each other. As The New York Times put it, "Carroll's world is one that is subtly out of kilter, and which can take a turn for the sinister at any time." This volume is winner of the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Story Collection. Contents: Mr. Fiddlehead (1989) Uh-Oh City (1992) The Fall Collection (1989) Friend's Best Man (1987) The Sadness of Detail (1990) Waiting to Wave (1993) The Jane Fonda Room (1982) A Quarter Past You (1989) My Zoondel (1989) Learning to Leave (1992) The Panic Hand (1989) The Bear in the Mouth (1989) Postgraduate (1984) Tired Angel (1989) The Dead Love You (1990) Florian (1989) The Life of My Crime (1992) A Wheel in the Desert, the Moon on Some Swings (1994) A Flash in the Pants (1995)

When best-selling novelist Sam Boyd starts to write a book about the death of a teenage beauty, Pauline Ostrova, called the beehive, the journey into his past becomes a terrifying jolt into the reality of the present. For many of the people close to him, this leads to devastating consequences.