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  Perhaps you’re a bit embarrassed, to have become part of my book. Please forgive me…but as John Donne said,

  “I am two fools, I know

  For loving, and for saying so

  In whining Poetry.”

  You may close these covers now, my love.

  About The Author

  Jeffrey Thomas is the creator of the popular Punktown universe, in which he has set the novels Blue War, Deadstock, Health Agent, Everybody Scream!, and Monstrocity, and the short story collections Punktown, Punktown: Shades Of Grey (with Scott Thomas) and Voices From Punktown. His Hades series includes the novel Letters From Hades, the sequel The Fall Of Hades, and the collection Voices From Hades. His Delirium Books titles have included Terror Incognita, Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood, Aaaiiieee!!!, Thirteen Specimens and Ugly Heaven, Beautiful Hell (with Carlton Mellick III). Other notable books from Thomas are the novel Boneland, the original A Nightmare Of Elm Street novel The Dream Dealers, and the Cthulhu Mythos collection Unholy Dimensions. Thomas lives in Massachusetts with his gorgeous wife Hong, adorable daughter Jade, and handsome son Colin.

  Table of Contents

  Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood

  A Puppet Show For No One or, The Story of Tristan and Isolde

  Act One: The Discarded Kingdom

  Act Two: The Spiked Brain

  Act Three: The Beautiful

  Act Four: Turn Away, Children

  Act Five: The White Hand

  Act Six: Wounded

  Act Seven: The White Flag

  Act Eight: Inanimated

  Clouds and Rain

  Impressions

  Scorpion Face

  Can You Pass Strother’s Love Test?

  Damask

  Afterword: My Sexual Exploits

  About The Author

  Table of Contents

  Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood

  A Puppet Show For No One or, The Story of Tristan and Isolde

  Act One: The Discarded Kingdom

  Act Two: The Spiked Brain

  Act Three: The Beautiful

  Act Four: Turn Away, Children

  Act Five: The White Hand

  Act Six: Wounded

  Act Seven: The White Flag

  Act Eight: Inanimated

  Clouds and Rain

  Impressions

  Scorpion Face

  Can You Pass Strother’s Love Test?

  Damask

  Afterword: My Sexual Exploits

  About The Author