The Heads of Cerberus (Paperback)

from antiquary

This story involves a vial topped by a silver image of the heads of Cerberus supposedly made by Cellini to hold dust scraped from the rocks of Purgatory. It turns out to have the ability to transfer people to Ulithis, a kind of "world between the worlds" and thence into a a world in an alternativ...

from JBD1

I'm glad this short novel has been reprinted in the Modern Library "Torchbearers" series, since it is certainly deserving of a new audience. It's not perfect, sure, but there's some excellent dystopian world-building here.

from Shimmin

This was a distinctly odd story, though not unenjoyable. The opening suggests we're in for a thriller along the lines of The Citadel of Fear, but things take a very different turn and we end up stranded in a parallel reality, via an extremely strange mystical interlude that has a bit of Greek myt...