Where Does One Go When There's No Place Left to Go?

“What I want you to do is turn around now and walk back out again,” Harry Crews said, “because I don’t write science fiction. Don’t read it. Can’t bear it.”

“We never said you did,” said the Gospel Singer.

“But this is close. This is getting mighty close.”

Anchoring this volume of Crews rarities, the novella Where Does One Go When There's No Place Left To Go? pits Crews himself against a handful of his most desperate creations. The Gospel Singer and Didymus; Fat Man (from Naked in Garden Hills); Belt (Karate is a Thing of the Spirit); Herman Mack & Margo (Car), and maniacal enthusiast Duffy Deeter (All We Need of Hell) have come calling on their creator, escaping their own fictions to settle up with the architect of their indvidual miseries. How do they go about this? Take him to Disney World, of course.

Also included are the only four short stories Crews published in his lifetime - three formative and foundational entries from the early 1960s and a tale of erotic horror commissioned by editor Ellen Datlow in 1994 - as well as the novella The Enthusiast and Crews' only stage play, the semi-autobiographical Blood Issue.