Link Arms With Toads!
Self-reflective mirrors looking for their own reflections. Towns that migrate to the moon. Prisoners of elaborate dungeons and gigantic miniature solar systems. Robots, ghosts, rascals, explorers, troubadours, apemen and yetis. All are present in the multiverse of inversion and invention that is Link Arms with Toads! Rhys Hughes is a unique figure in contemporary fiction whose speculative whimsicality is not so much balanced as trampolined by tensile prose and puckish pensiveness. Link Arms with Toads! forms the ideal introduction to his work.
Contents:
- The Troubadours of Perception
- Number 13½
- The Taste of the Moon
- Lunarhampton
- The Expanding Woman
- All Shapes Are Cretans
- The Innumerable Chambers of the Heart
- Pity the Pendulum
- 333 and a Third
- The Candid Slyness of Scurrility Forepaws
- Ye Olde Resignation
- Castle Cesare
- The Mirror in the Looking Glass
- Oh Ho!
- Loneliness
- Hell Toupée
- Inside the Outline
- Discrepancy
Rhys Hughes
Rhys Henry Hughes (born 1966) is a Welsh writer and essayist.
Born in Cardiff, Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences, which include Italo Calvino, Milorad Pavić, Jorge Luis Borges, Stanisław Lem, Flann O'Brien, Felipe Alfau, Donald Barthelme and Jack Vance. Much of his work is of a humorously eccentric bent, often parodies and pastiches with surreal and absurdist overtones, although he is by no means limited to any of these forms and has proven to be extremely versatile. He has been published in Postscripts among many other places.