Matinee at the Flame

An elderly junk dealer finds redemption in a defunct burlesque theater. A middle-aged Jewish man discovers the aphrodisiacal powers of a Ku Klux Klan uniform. An annual street carnival provides the venue for legalized murder. A hopeless young factory worker uses her savings to pay for a fantasy tryst with her idol, a dead rock star, and is shattered by the experience. Welcome to the world of Christopher Fahy, a world of fantastical transformation, where the ordinary takes bizarre and macabre twists. These are among the twenty-two stories (which includes one extra story in this hard cover version) fantasy stories in the latest Overlook Connection Press release, Christopher Fahy's Matinee at the Flame.