The stories in this collection are varied in form and content, from The Isolation Booth’, which Hood describes in his introduction as … typical media folklore, the tale of a human sacrifice’, to The Fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper’ which is concerned with the moral: Never oppress the shiftless and the idle; they may have powerful friends.’ These stories reflect the variety of Hood’s experiments with the form, as well as his continuing concern with the human condition, which prompted William Blackburn to comment, Hood’s thirty-year career demonstrates his profound and compassionate sensitivity to our human predicament.

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