Now, with The Other Nineteenth Century, Grania Davis and Henry Wessells have compiled a new collection focusing on Davidson's distinctive historical fantasies -- tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are late dragons, early cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach."

Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.