The Door to Lost Pages - Softcover

Praise for Claude Lalumi re "Lalumi re is a gifted writer, thoroughly in control of his text." --Strange Horizons "Lalumi re is clearly comfortable with the trickier elements of horror and erotica, and knows when to step back at the right moment. Although the Lost Pages world is pure fantasy, it is no fantasy world. He may have found the most compassionate way to depict people on the edge of society, and that is to paint them as being lost to themselves--and to everyone else." --Louise Fabiani, The Montreal Review of Books "Claude Lalumi re reveals the mythology of his world in pieces, often through nested stories. Encounters with the forces of evil are twisted and terrifying, but the battle never overshadows the individual stories; this remains a book about people and the beauty of books. While the narration swings from whimsical and hopeful to violent and despairing, the sense of wonder remains throughout." --NJ.com "Lalumi re's trick is to make the fantastic appear mundane and then to amplify what one may consider mundane to fantastical proportions." --R. Brian Hastie, The Link "Claude Lalumi re's stories are dark, mordant, precisely formed. His first collection is extraordinarily accomplished in its craft and subversive intent." --Lucius Shepard "Claude Lalumi re has a poet's sensibility. He suggests; never overstates. This finely crafted, stylishly dark collection is a vitrine of objets and curios, a specimen cabinet of elegant bizarrerie. I recommend it to all connoisseurs of lyricism and things passing strange." --Richard Calder "Claude Lalumi re's extravagant imagination is matched by only two other qualities: his compassion for his characters, and his sparkling facility with language. His stories resound with the clash of ideas, the music of hearts and the howls of indignation that any sensitive creator emits when confronted with a universe less esthetically pleasing and fair-minded than the ones he daily strives to create." --Paul Di Filippo

On her tenth birthday, Aydee runs away from home and from her neglectful parents. At first, surviving alone on the streets is harsh, but a series of frightening, bewildering encounters with strange primordial creatures leads her to a bookshop called Lost Pages, where she steps into a fantastic, sometimes dangerous, but exciting life.