From Publishers Weekly
Album Zutique #1, edited by Jeff VanderMeer, launches a new anthology series devoted to fantasy in the Decadent, surreal and magic realist traditions. Contributors to this genre-crossing volume include both established names (Elizabeth Hand, Jeffrey Ford) and newer talents (K.J. Bishop, Rhys Hughes).
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From Booklist
The publisher-coeditor of the hefty Leviathan anthologies (see
Leviathan 3 [BKL Jl 02]) launches a new series "devoted to the surreal & decadent." Its name refers to the blank book that the Zutistes, a writers' coven that included Verlaine and Rimbaud, left open for any member to write in. Its first edition is an anthology of stories, mostly. The very first piece is a parodic guide to a zoo full of creatures named after famous fantasists and humorists, and it wears out its welcome, as do a faux manifesto and one of the longest actual stories. Shorter pieces, however, especially those by Jeffrey Ford, Jay Lake, Elizabeth Hand, and Rhys Hughes, are as engrossin