***Jeffery Scott Sims*** *a degreed anthropologist with a taste for weird fiction, lives in Arizona, which forms the setting for many of his tales. He has well over a hundred publications, among them the novel* The Journey of Jacob Bleek, *the collection* Eerie Arizona, *and his latest novel,* The Journey through the Black Book. *He maintains a literary website devoted to strange tales [here](http://simsweird.infinityfreeapp.com/index.html).*