Fantasy Kit

<p>Adam McOmber could be describing <em>Fantasy Kit</em> as a whole with these lines: This is my house. The one I've been telling you about...You think: I know that house...But I can assure you you're wrong about that. You've never seen my house. In reading <em>Fantasy Kit</em> I felt like a visitor to a strange theme park constructed of smoke and clay lust and the uncanny wickedness and tenderness. Here readers are ushered into mazes and caverns paradises and pleasure gardens; whisked to Neverland Mars ancient Rome and a cornfield in Ohio. Throughout McOmber writes with singular imagination and delight. These stories bewitch.</p><p><strong>-Michelle Ross</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Adam McOmber's stories are the work of an architect and master illusionist. He constructs fairy tales that twist into labyrinths labyrinths that open up gloriously into new myths-and always as if just under the page is the thump and flow of blood the pulsing hidden desire of the human heart.</p><p><strong>-James Tadd Adcox</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Evocative inventive disquieting thrilling sensual-here to borrow a phrase is story in all its occult guises. If after you read the first story in Jackson's <em>The Lottery</em> Poe's <em>Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque</em> or Carter's <em>The Bloody Chamber </em>you couldn't stop until you'd finished the book I have good news: You've found your next page turner. The stories in <em>Fantasy Kit </em>may be short but their effects are potent. Prepare for exquisite pleasures on every page.</p><p><strong>-Gabriel Blackwell</strong></p>