Book description
Grieving over his wife's death, Phil Ainsworth is further shaken by his
sister's death and the arrival of his niece Betsy, a child who hears the
voices of the dead and sees the forces closing in around the old house
he has inherited from his mother. James P. Blaylock was born in Long
Beach, California, in 1950, and attended California State University,
where he received an MA. He was befriended and mentored by Philip K.
Dick, along with his contemporaries K. W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is
regarded - along with Powers and Jeter - as one of the founding fathers
of the steampunk movement. Winner of two World Fantasy Awards and a
Philip K. Dick Award, he is currently director of the Creative Writing
Conservatory at the Orange County High School of the Arts, where Tim
Powers is Writer in Residence.
