The Dancer at the Red Door

Aurora Award Finalist Alexander King has everything--wealth, power, a business empire over which he rules. But lately, the corporate game in which he excels has lost its thrill for him. He needs a new game. And then, on the crowded streets of Toronto, in the dead cold of winter, she appears before him. The Dancer. Achingly beautiful, half-naked, and dancing to a song that only she and King seem to hear, she becomes King's new obsession. An obsession that draws him into a journey through a secret world hidden within the city he thought he knew.and to a very special club. Urban fantasy (short story) "'The Dancer at the Red Door, ' with its mix of oblique horror, urban fantasy, and monsters ...
recalls British horror novelist Clive Barker at his most disturbingly fanciful." -Quill and Quire "An excellent story . urban fantasy at its best." -Fantasy Book Critic "...intriguing meditation on escapism...evoking Gaiman's Neverwhere, the obligatory helping of Lovecraft, plus a touch of something like Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut" -Strange Horizons