Just outside the small town of Sleepy Hollow, retired Music Executive Ichabod Crane has been spending his days at the palatial estate of wealthy agri-business executive Baltus VanTassel, tutoring his daughter, Katerina, in digital music production. When a strange man claiming to be from the VanTassel's ancestral homeland tricks him into exploring an ancient crypt to find a fabulous magic ring, his only companion is the daemon who inhabits the brass flashlight the wizard sent him in with. <p>Also included in this volume are 31 flash fiction stories including: <p>Terramancer<br>A timid man is surprised to find a wizard casting spells on his side-lawn one morning. <p>Unalloyed Payload<br>In an abandoned missile silo, the greatest of craftsmen tries to reconstruct the lover he left in Pohjola. <p>The Order of the Leaf Eaters<br>An acolyte of a sacred brotherhood of salad tasters begins to lose his faith. <p>Piggy the Gunman<br>A frontierswoman builds herself a scarecrow protector who is more than the sum of his parts.