"Before science became so stodgy and provable, doctors, merchants, artists, and collectors of every kind would gather bizarre and compelling items from a wide range of interests and place them on display in curiosity cabinets. These collections took pieces from nature and objects unexplainable within their perimeters of time and knowledge, creating a blend of science and the fantastical. The beautiful and odd. The things that were fascin ..."
"Poisons come in all shapes and sizes, often resting in that murky, gray area between too much and too little, between right and wrong. Some poisons help; some poisons hurt. Some do both in the proper doses. But one thing is certain—whether good or evil, figurative or literal, fact or fiction—we can’t escape its potent charm. Throughout this anthology, poison takes many forms, both literal and metaphorical, in a wide variety of genres an ..."