RULE DEMENTIA!

Back in print after a long hiatus, Quentin S. Crisp&rsquo,s third collection of fiction, Rule Dementia!, sees the author start to experiment with the form and content of the macabre tale. &lsquo,The Haunted Bicycle&rsquo, is his first attempt to use Japanese I-novel techniques with supernatural subject matter and tales such as &lsquo,The Waiting&rsquo, and &lsquo,Unimaginable Joys&rsquo, are a fusion of cosmic vision and the fey, shoe-gazing miserablism of Generation X. Throughout, the collection forms a symbolic, whimsical bestiary of the modern soul as brimming with unexpected, irreducible and oddly specific imagery as a Hieronymus Bosch painting.  , Informed by a surreal, apocalyptic paranoia, yet rooted in child-like imagination and sheltered in the lee of unschooled mysticism, these early tales together make up a playful scrapbook of despair and hope at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first._,