The Cabal and Other Stories

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 272, [3]. Quarter-bound maroon cloth over grey paper boards, lettered in silver to spine, blind stamped to front. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye, with back panel praise from The Washington Post, New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune et al. 1/25,000 copies printed.

Author's seventeenth book overall. "This is the story of a group of people who had a bizarre and unexpected thing happen to them. Their psychiatrist went crazy and started injecting himself with drugs. The most useful and dependable man in their lives became a maniac in the true sense of the word." So begins, 'The Cabal', the novella that forms the centrepiece of this collection of stories. By the 1984 National Book Award-winning author of Victory Over Japan. "Ellen Gilchrist should be declared a national cultural treasure." –Washington Post