Fantastic Metropolis

Favorite books (in sequence read)

• The Pearl, John Steinbeck
• Word Made Flesh, Jack O’Connell
• Thirst For Love, Yukio Mishima
• The Tain, China Miéville
• The Brains of Rats, Michael Blumlein
• Cities of the Red Night, William S. Burroughs
• Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts, W. H. Pugmire
• American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis
• Watchmen, Alan Moore
• Concrete Island, J.G. Ballard
• My Work Is Not Yet Done, Thomas Ligotti
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
• In Springdale Town, Robert Freeman Wexler

Favorite films

• Kill Bill, Volume 1.

Favorite music

• Kill Bill, Volume 1 (soundtrack), Various artists
• North, Elvis Costello
• Silent Hill 3 (video game soundtrack), Akira Yamaoka

Jeffrey Thomas is the author of the novels Letters from Hades (Bedlam Press), Monstrocity (Prime), and the collection Punktown (Ministry of Whimsy Press), an expanded version of which will be released by Prime in 2004. Also forthcoming in 2004 are the novel Boneland (Bloodletting Press), The Sea of Flesh and Ash (with brother Scott Thomas, from Prime), and Punktown: Third Eye, an anthology he has edited for Prime. He lives in Massachusetts.