The stories in A Walk on the Weird Side flirt with outlandish fancy. They include unfettered fantasy in Orchis Amoroso where an orchid engenders a bizarre encounter between a human and a potently bizarre being, a haunting experience among the spheres in a tale told from the grave in Music of a Golden Grave a sculptor's audacious and futile quest to create the ideal woman in The Price of Perfection, an unnerving assault by a mythical troublemaker in The Abduction and in Callisto's Conversion, the voluntary, if unlikely taming of a harpy.