Katydid and Other Critters: Tales of Fantasy and Mystery By Robert Reginald

"My adventures since I wrote last, have not been very numerous, but such as they are, they are much at your service. I took our long-plann'd walk to the Cassoon before tea...Very little of Mr. Weldon's water raising machine now remains to be seen...so I took myself into the hole that had been dug into the side of the hill... So writes Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, in a letter dated May 15, 1801. But what the soon-to-be-famous author has discovered is...evidence of the unexpected advent of several visitors to Bath...and Jane senses not only a displacement in geography and culture, but also of time. And the fun begins... Here are sixteen sparkling stories of fantasy and mystery and humor and academe, one hundred thousand words of new fiction in the debut collection of a new American talent. Austrian-American writer ROBERT REGINALD has penned some five thousand short pieces and ninety-two books, including the much-acclaimed Codex Derynianus, and has edited some 650 other monographs. Although he has perched high on the rims of both Eastern and Western Asia, he now calls Southern California his home.