Readers familiar with James Blaylock's most recent collection, Thirteen Phantasms, know he's a master of quirky, evocative tales set in a California that exists only in the imagination. He's spent the past eighteen months mapping that territory, and In for a Penny is the result.

None of these stories, a number of them novellas, have been collected before, and many have only appeared online. At least one will be written especially for this collection.