Struck by lightning, resurrected, cut open, and stuffed full of arcane
documents, the Divinity Student is sent to the desert city of San Veneficio
to reconstruct the Lost Catalog of Unknown Words. He learns to pick the
brains of corpses and gradually sacrifices his sanity on the altar of a
dubious mission of espionage. Without ever understanding his own reasons, he
moves toward destruction with steely determination. Eventually he find
himself reduced to a walker between worlds - a creature neither of flesh nor
spirit, stuffed with paper and preserved with formaldehyde - a zombie of his
own...

A new novel from Michael Cisco, the International Horror Writer's Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. "Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. The Tyrant is his masterpiece." -- Thomas Ligotti

A new novel from Michael Cisco, the International Horror Writer's Guild Award for Best First Novel of 1999. "Michael Cisco's works immerse the reader in worlds that are not simply dreamlike in the quality of their imagination but somehow manage to capture and convey the power of the dream itself. The Tyrant is his masterpiece." -- Thomas Ligotti

"Reading The Wretch of the Sun is akin to a ghost looking at its reflection in a mirror in a haunted house and finding nothing there, or too much there. An out-of-control freight train going from this world to the other and back whiteout / without knowing where it will stop, if ever."--Harry O. Morris
A haunted house is a house with its own story. A ghost is someone about whom stories are told, who is unable to tell his or her own story. Death can be understood as the inability to tell one's own story; whether that death is literal is another question. Ghosts exist in imagination,...

Glossator 8 (2013) Kafka's Zurau Aphorisms -- Michael Cisco Sensuous and Scholarly Reading in Keats's 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' -- Thomas Day Notes to Stephen Rodefer's Four Lectures (1982) -- Ian Heames Ornate and Explosive Grief: A Comparative Commentary on Frank O'Hara's "In Memory of My Feelings" and "To Hell With It," Incorporating a Substantial Gloss on the Serpent in the Poetry of Paul Valery, and a Theoretical Excursus on Ornate Poetics -- Sam Ladkin On In Memory of Your Occult Convolutions -- Richard Parker"

A living form of money results in the unraveling of the world.

"The bank is there to save and lend."

"-Workers work and customers spend."