Welcome to the new site of the Ministry of Whimsy, an imprint of Night Shade Books . Our Ministers of Constructionand Design are currently fighting the Ministers of Destruction and Ennui. Assoon as this is all resolved — which will be soon — a dynamic and eyebrowraising site will replace this one. In the meantime, join us on the Night Shade BooksDiscussion Area , read our History , and order our books . —The Ministers of Whimsy The Ministry of Whimsy announces the publication this fall of... IN & OZ by Steve Tomasula IN & OZ is a novel of art, love, auto mechanics, and two places: the actualities of the here and now and the desire for somewhere better. Five men and women — an auto designer, photographer, musical composer, poet/sculptor and mechanic — find themselves drawn together when they begin to suspect that the thing lacking in their lives might be discovered in the other place. Against the tension between idiosyncratic art and mass-marketed taste, each works to bridge the gulf between IN & OZ by using the medium of their trades: light and darkness; sound and silence. IN & OZ is a story as old as the Tower of Babel and as new as global markets: the story of people trying to reach beyond the limits of language and remake the world, or at least their selves. "In IN & OZ , Steve Tomasula writes as though the English language were his own invention. I'm far from certain he's wrong about this. But if we could still imagine a surrounding in which destiny lay within creatures and stones, or recognized the unconfinements of words, we might know fiction as he does. Next to being wholly new, IN & OZ is the best there is." — R.M. Berry, author of Leonardo's Horse: A Novel and The Dictionary of Modern Anguish: Fictions "With IN & OZ , Tomasula crafts a fiercely intelligent and uncompromising parable on what has become of us." — Alex Shakar, author of The Savage Girl and City in Love: The New York Metamorphoses Secure Order Form Non-Secure Order Form Album Zutique #1, edited by Jeff VanderMeer, was published on May 24, 2003. Album Zutique #1 is a general anthology of modern Surrealist and Decadent short fiction. Subsequent numbers in the Album Zutique series will have a more specific focus-whether presenting a single-author collection, a selection of essays, an anthology from a particular culture/country, or short novels. Album Zutique takes its name from the Decadent-era writers' group, the Zutistes, whose members included Rimbaud and Verlaine. The "Album Zutique" was a journal or blank book in which members would write poetry or prose. The journal was often available for perusal by anyone who frequented a particular Paris café. "This is dark fantasy in a playful mood, full of sex and morbidity, amusingly sinister. Looking for a modern-day Poe? Look no longer." — Booklist The Ministry will release the following books as part of its 2003-2004campaign: Zoran Zivkovic's The Fourth Circle Leviathan 4: Cities (edited by Forrest Aguirre) & other titles yet to be announced Publisher : Jason Williams Founder & Creative Director : Jeff VanderMeer Editors : Forrest Aguirre Ann Kennedy John Klima Mike Simanoff Web Site Editor : Mike Simanoff

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ISBN: 1-894815-42-4 Price: $21.95 Pages: 484 Official Release Date : July 2002 The World Fantasy Award and BritishFantasy Award finalist Ministry ofWhimsy, publisher of the Philip K.Dick Award winning The Troika ,presents the latest installment of theoriginal anthology series Leviathan .Featuring Zoran Zivkovic's short novel The Library . From Michael Moorcock toL. Timmel Duchamp, Jeffrey Ford toBrian Stableford, Leviathan 3 showcasesthe best of contemporary fantasticalfiction. Also including work by RikkiDucornet, Carol Emshwiller, JamesSallis, with translations of Gautier andGourmont. Leviathan 3 is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. It is also on Locus Magazine 's 2002 Recommended Reading List , William Thompson's Best Fantasy of 2002 on SFSite , and Booklist's top ten recent horror books . Robert Silverberg selected Brian Stableford's "Face of an Angel" for Fantasy: The Best of 2002 . Cover art by Dawn Andrews   |   Cover design by Duane Bray CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR COPY OF LEVIATHAN 3