Cryptopolis and Other Stories

"If you're tired of the same wines and you're curious about the vintage only just whispered about, have a deep draught of Robert Guffey's Cryptopolis. You don't have to descend with Fortunato to the deepest cellars to find this bottle of Amontillado. Here it is! If Poe collaborated with Robert Anton Wilson ... if Borges had a lovechild with Lovecraft, which was subsequently adopted by Kafka ... you might get Cryptopolis. I think, too, that Clark Ashton Smith would admire this collection. Written with the obsessive precision of a mysterious staircase descending into the abyss, Cryptopolis will take you to strange epiphanies." - John Shirley, author of The Feverish Stars

"Once upon a time, weird and speculative fiction had an underground full of stories that were not written as calling cards or as film treatments or as extended internet memes. Guffey's tales resist genre gentrification; they move into your mind to turn it into a punk house squat!" - Nick Mamatas, author of Move Under Ground and The Second Shooter

"Though not for the faint of heart, this bizarre and over-the-top collection is sure to thrill devotees of weird fiction." - Publishers Weekly