Letter from Unknown Dimension Literature

The letter from Unknown Dimension Literature is addressed to Terrence Greenbriar and discusses an offer to reprint his books The Accidental Savior and The Accidental Pariah.

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MARCH 28 1995

UNKNOWN DIMENSION LIT.

Dear Mr. Greenbriar,

''First let me say that I hope this missive finds you well -- hell, it feels like a goddamn miracle that it finds you at all! Do you know how long we've been trying to track you down?! Worry not, we aren't the Feds, the men in black, or any other sort of creeping fascist hobgoblins. In fact we're on your side. Let me start from the beginning.''

Unknown Dimension is what you might call a Specialist publishing house -- we traffic in the weird, the ahead-of-its-time, the lost-but-not-forgotten-by-a small-but-dedicated-group-of-plugged-in-bibliophiles type of out-there mass-market-shunning visionary expression that refuses to be taken on anything but its own terms.

''We've had an unparallelled run since our inception four years ago, unearthing and reviving, Christ- (or Zombie-)like, timeless works such as N.N. Bestmans Message of the Snakemen, IT'S INSIDE ME ! by Jens Keller, and Emil Kriegers oft-banned Venusian Fleshtraders .''

''But ever since we discovered tattered copies of your ACCIDENTAL series at a church rummage sale in Long Branch, NJ, we ve been trying to track down the author of this weird and dark American outsider art. It's just the kind of forgotten portal into 20th century civilization's anxieties and delusions that our readers lose their minds over. James Bond and Harrison Ford might be the dick-swinging heroes that modern suburban America wants, but John Russell, mild-mannered insurance agent by day, reckless history-revising sociopath by night, is the twisted peacekeeper that it deserves. It is our mission to bring him back to life.''

''OKAY. SO I'VE TYPED PLENTY. WHAT DO WE WANT FROM YOU?''

''We want your permission to reprint the work, since your original publisher, Mercury Books, folded a decade ago. We want you to supply a new foreword for the books, to appear in brand new editions of THE ACCIDENTAL SAVIOR and THE ACCIDENTAL PARIAH, to be produced by Unknown Dimension as a limited run and marketed directly to our highly discerning customer base. And we want to offer you a portion of the proceeds (contract to follow, assuming you're interested in coming along with us on this weird odyssey).''

''WE LOOK$ FORWARD TO EMBARKING WITH YOU, and to thrusting your work screaming back into the sweating palms of an unsuspecting American public. It's about time.''

Blast off,

Medisch Kazcinski, Publisher

Unknown Dimension Lit.

6464 Michigan Ave.

Newark, NJ 07114

Location
The letter is found on a table in the room containing gardening supplies leading off from the kitchen.