The beak doctor Short fiction Author:Eric Basso For years, Eric Basso's novella, "The Beak Doctor," has sustained a cult reputation among a hard core of avant-garde writers.This collection of short stories begins with a tale of death and hideous ressurection, moves on through a quest for the "great horse" who rules a subterranean polar kingdom, an atmospheric cycle of short prose pieces, a t... more »ragicomic roman noir set in exotic Istanbul (in which the "great horse" appears in a new guise), and concludes with the harrowing odyssey of a masked man in a fogbound city turned upside down by a plague of sleeping sickness: "The Beak Doctor."« less