"Lies and Ugliness proves to be a bravura performance by a true virtuoso." Faren Miller, Locus "Brian Hodge has long been a favorite of horror insiders, both for his audacious themes and his impressive facility with language. In such Hodge novels as "Deathgrip," "Nightlife," "The Darker Saints," and "Prototype," and in his widely-anthologized short stories, you can hear the music in Hodge's prose, a kind of euphony that, at its best, is reminiscent of Brite, Koja, Gaiman, or even Roger Zelazny--while remaining, ultimately, unique." Thomas Roche Contents: * Madame Babylon * The 121st Day of Sodom * Empathy * Cancer Causes Rats * Some Other Me * Nesting Instincts (original) * Before the Last Snowflake Falls * An Autumnal Equinox Folly * Confession * Cenotaph * Far Flew the Boast of Him * Now Day Was Fled As the Worm Had Wished * Pages Stuck By a Bowie Knife to a Cheyenne Gallows * Driving the Last Spike * Little Holocausts * Dead Giveaway * Past Tense * Our Lady of Sloth and Scarlet Ivy (original) * The Last Testament * The Alchemy of the Throat * Come Unto Me, All Ye Heavy Laden * From the Gutters of Civilization to Your Discerning Eye (story notes)