A collection that offers a diverse range of stories which deal with real-life conflicts, human values, and experiences. It includes such stories as: Bright Morning , Exo-Skeleton Town , and Creation .

Shunned by the village he saved and seeing no future in the ruins of the Well-Built City, the reformed physiognomist, Cley, ventures into the wilderness to seek forgiveness from a woman that he once hideously harmed. Wandering through this eerie land known as 'The Beyond', he encounters ghosts, monsters, omnivorous trees, and more on his quest.

Identifies, explains, and illustrates the four day-to-day organizational conversations people at work must use on a daily basis to be successful. This book shows how to use each conversation appropriately, accurately, and completely to avoid the pitfalls that become barriers to success at work.

A collection that includes the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary combining the mundane with the metaphysical. It features stories followed by a brief afterword that details its genesis, offering insight into the many autobiographical elements found within.

The nightmare metropolis, the Well-Built City, exists because satanic genius Drachton Below wished it so. Few within its confines hold the power of Physiognomist Cley. With scalpels, calipers and the other instruments of his science, Cley can uncover dark secrets and foretell a person's destiny.

New York, 1893, and society portrait painter Piero Piambo feels his artistic ambition waning, even while he immortalizes the city's nouveaux riches in oil paints. But then he receives a bizarre and lucrative commission to paint the mysterious Mrs Charbuque.

After beholding the destruction of the Well-Built City, physiognomist Cley is now a simple healer seeking peace and atonement in the happy village of survivors. When the town falls into a deadly sleeping sickness, Cley must make a dangerous trip to the ruins of City - now beset by mechanical birds and werewolves - to seek out an antidote.

Drug addicted, physiognomist Cley is ordered by the Master of the Well-Built City to investigate a theft in a remote mining town. Well-versed in serving justice, Cley sets out to determine the identity of the thief using the pseudo-science of judging people by their features, but becomes distracted from his task by a beautiful girl from town.