The Sultan of Misanthropia, an elegant dwarf bent on incinerating the entire planet and experiencing an "orgasm of terror." A WW II veteran, wielder of a flamethrower on Iwo Jima, who tells of his strange encounter with Robert Oppenheimer. A "word assassin" who executes with fragments of poetry and "compact shiny sentences." A sociopathic collector of serial killer confessions. These and even stranger voices inhabit Andrew Howald's new collection...