From the Mark Rothko Chapel in Houston to a seedy antique store in Vladivostok; from a resort spa's special massage for those in the know with money to a serpentarium with a Malaysian Blue Cobra and the equally lethal small Coral snake from Florida; from the wealthy city of Bunhill Fields, named after a cemetery in North London where the poet William Blake was buried, to a costume ball to end all; from feasts of oysters and roasted suckling Iberian pigs to a cellar where the hosts serve their guests bar nuts in colored skulls, human and not --- these eleven inter-related short fictions...