You awake in a strange setting, strapped to a table.  A mysterious doctor begins speaking, each word causing you more concern and apprehension.  A device unlike any you've ever seen is pushed onto your forehead, its quills attaching themselves to the bone of your skull.

You scream with your mouth closed as you enter another unusual place--then another--then another--until finally you enter the...

 ...Skull Cathedral.

"In their on-going mission to warp (if not destroy) the minds of everyone who comes into contact with their publications, Novello Publishers unleash Tim Waggoner's 'Skull Cathedral,' a surrealist black comedy that reads like a head-on collision between Joe Lansdale (of The Drive-In period) and Ramsey Campbell, with perhaps a touch of Harvey Pekar thrown in for good measure. In short: it's a story that will test your mettle and make you feel dirty every time you laugh -- and despite the dark subject matter and Waggoner's deft handling of some tragic elements, you will laugh. Novello Publishers really ought to be stopped, but I will have no part in that -- not as long as they publish material as challenging and memorable as 'Skull Cathedral.'"
-- 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner Gary A. Braunbeck, author of Mr. Hands and Coffin County