Last Days

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due to Paul Miller for first publishing "The Brotherhood of Mutilation" and Paul DiFilippo for writing an introduction to that volume. I'd also like to thank Paul Maliszewski and Paul Tobin Anderson for advice concerning one-handed piano performances and for putting me on the trail of Paul Wittgenstein, the one-armed pianist (and brother of Ludwig Wittgenstein), and Paul LaFarge and Forrest Paul Gander for general encouragement. And to my girlfriend, Paul, and to my two daughters, Paul and Paul.

And the greatest thanks to three honorary Pauls-my publisher Victoria Blake, my agent Matt McGowan, my French editor Claro-and to the ever-generous and ever-brilliant Peter Straub.