In this collection (the first since 1998) are stories with an alternate world Poppy as the coroner of New Orleans ('Oh Death, Where is Thy Spatula?' 'Marisol'), a traditional Halloween story ('Lantern Marsh'), a story published as a hard-to-find chapbook ('Pansu'), and a brand-new novella related to the novel Liquor. (This is not an excerpt; it stands alone.)