"Though celebrated and welcomed in SF's 'new weird' ghetto" author Jeffrey Ford is "poorly served by genre labelling; his imagination flourishes best on its own alienated turf," wrote Michael Moorcock in the London Guardian. Ford is, to use several labels, a fantasy, science-fiction, mystery, and suspense/horror-fiction author whose work includes a fiction trilogy composed of The Physiognomy, Memoranda, and The Beyond. Other works by Ford include the stand-alone novels Vanitas and The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, as well as the award-winning story collection The Fantasy Writer's Assistant, and Other Stories. James Sallis, writing in Fantasy & Science Fiction, further alluded to the many fiction hats Ford effortlessly wears, describing Ford as "one of that growing body of writers who seem to be stateless, nonetheless moving about at ease on travel papers issued by fantasy, the mystery/thriller, and capital-L Literature." Ford is, according to Sallis, "a world-eater, a...