title: The Blue Lantern: Stories
author:  Victor Pelevin 
description: <em>In The Blue Lantern &amp; Other Stories</em>, Pelevin continues to gnaw at our confidence in conventional reality, like a dog worrying a bone.<br /> - <strong><em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong>
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  THE BLUE DEVIL
  
  by
  
  Melynda Beth Andrews
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A PEDESTAL LANTERN BOOK
  
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  PUBLISHED BY PEDESTAL BOOKS
  
  Copyright 2001, 2011 by Melynda Beth Andrews, All Rights Reserved
  
  > Pedestal Books and the author ask that you not participate in or encourage
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  ISBN-10 0-9839891-0-9
  
  ISBN-13 9780983989103
  
  > This is a work of fiction. Everything and everyone in it are the product of
  > the author’s imagination or is used fictitiously, and, apart from historical
  > personages, any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is coincidental
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For my darling Boris,
  
  my turgid bumblebee of eternal love,
  
  from his sweet flower of trembling passion
  
  (may he die a thousand painful, screaming
  
  deaths in the molten misery of eternal
  
  bug spray).
  
  And for John.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dear Reader,
  
  There’s a fair chance you’ll love th