In Basilisk Soup & Other Fantasies you'll find a mermaid smoking French cigarettes in the bath and demanding a holiday, pickled brains plotting in the pantry while Father tangos the night away under the eye of the most honest spy in all Argentina. There's Talos and Medea, Witches' skulls, Caliban, Gawain, evil scientists, Anglo-Saxon poetry, and Frankenstein's Niece. In the story 'The Sulphur Remedy' there's a giant flea sat where the flatmate used to be and, let's face it, he's an improvement. In 'Basilisk Soup' a green man has lost his head and isn't going to take it lying down. There are...