I've read nearly everything by J. Robert Lennon so I greatly anticipated reading this one. It didn't disappoint.

These stories are typical of Lennon's fantastical flair. Some briefer than others, and some interlinked through form or content, there is the underlying sense of tension that I"ve come to find familiar in Lennon's writing: something dark and ominous among colorful symbols and eccentric characters. Particular favorites from this collection include the four-part series "The Cottage on the Hill" where an unhappy man continually revisits an old haunt finding a strange, unsettling decay, and "The Loop" where a divorced and fired teacher volunteers to collect and deliver discarded furniture and becomes trapped in an ever-repeating day. I didn't like this collection quite as much as Lennon's novels, but they are delightful to wolf down, and intimate and peculiar enough to linger in the mind.