A Troll's Phantasmagoria

Garn, a troll of the Scandinavian sort, and Lucy, a PhD-holding prostitute and expert in ancient languages, cavort and plot with friends in the New York City of the 1970s, with many of its themes still resonating today. This novel is being published on the 40th anniversary of the death of its author, Ronald J. Willis, founder of the International Fortean Organization. The typewritten manuscript was discovered in the proverbial trunk by the author's family when they were unpacking after a move recently. The novel has weird and wacky characters, wild and funny events, and allusions to death, Fortean phenomena, mysticism and various religions and spiritual paths including Gnosticism, Buddhism, Christianity, Jewish folklore, and Paganism. Willis was raised Roman Catholic but by the time he was an adult he had left that Church. Though interested in various spiritualities, he never again affiliated with a church of any denomination. A novel classified as magical realism, fabulist fiction, paranormal fiction, and similar genres, the book's language and writing style range from racy and humorous to poetically profound.