London's miraculous underbelly. A family mysteriously disappears on moorland, never to be seen again. A vicious vendetta between two gunslingers escalates into a conclusion both surprising and inevitable. A gang of anarchic orphans transform Paris into a fabulist jungle. In the future, urban legend is thought to be reality and an angel is the centre of obsessive attention at a party. This collection of sharp, haunting short stories depicts a world in which another reality hovers below the surface of what we see, and in which nothing is as it first seems. This revised edition now also includes the early novella 'Blowing Hot and Cold'.