SMOKE OF THE SNAKE was originally intended to be Carl Jacobi’s fourth hardcover collection—first under the title {Levitations in Lavender} and, later, {Wayfarers in Darkness}. The death of its intended publisher scuttled the project, and for the twenty-some years it circulated in manuscript it underwent further changes in title and contents. In its final form SMOKE OF THE SNAKE includes some of Jacobi’s earliest professionally published stories and all of his recent work in the fields of horror and dark fantasy.
Fifteen previously uncollected horror tales have been gathered by the author and his co-editor. […] Jacobi’s bibliographer R. Dixon Smith provides an informative bio-bibliographical introduction.

CONTENTS
Introduction by R. Dixon Smith
1. The Music Lover
2. Hamadryad
3. The Elcar Special
4. Eternity When?
5. The Tunnel
6. The Monument
7. The Street That Wasn’t There (with/Clifford D. Simak)
8. Smoke of the Snake
9. The Black Garden
10. Test Case
11. Josephine Gage
12. Offspring
13. Chameleon Town
14. A Quire of Foolscap
15. The Chadwick Pit
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Jacket art (The Other Side of Midnight) by Jon Arfstrom
Interior illustration by Rodger Gerberding