[who did it] Tal Publications, November, 1992. Necro Publications reprint, July 2002. 52 hardcovers lettered and signed. 300 chapbooks numbered and signed. Book 3 in the Necro Chapbook line.

[chance of gettin'] Original is very, very hard to find. The reprint is also sold out from the publisher, Necro Publications

[the skinny] Signed limited-edition chapbook.
Another of Lee’s misguided involvements with Tal Publications, this one turned out to be one of the author’s hottest items on the collector’s market. “The three stories in this ugly-ass chapbook are among my favorites of my stuff,” Lee says. Never mind that the layout and production of this chap look terrible; there’s a cover by Rick Leider and an introduction by Jack Ketchum. The stories are the intellectualized b-movie-like “The Seeker” and the Lieberesque “The Goddess of the New Dark Age,” plus the potent existential porn piece, “Sex, Truth, & Reality” aka “Pay Me.” The latter has never been reprinted, and was originally accepted in the early ‘80s by HUSTLER magazine, even to the point that Lee’s manuscript was copy-edited and sent to the typesetter. “Jut my luck,” Lee recalls. “Right before they were going to pay me something like 800 bucks,” the fiction editor left the company and the story was rejected by his successor, said HUSTLER was no place for philosophical fiction. It’s the only time I’m ever gotten a manuscript returned with copy-edit marks.” (Note to collector’s: on the signing sheet of the original chapbook, the printing is listed as 1000, but only 300 were ever published.)