TY - BOOK AU - Erickson,Steve TI - Tours of the black clock: [a novel] SN - 9780671649210 PY - 1988/// CY - New York PB - Poseidon Press KW - Space and time KW - Fiction KW - Clock (general) KW - Clock KW - Fantasy fiction KW - lcgft N2 - Tours of the Black Clock is a wild dream of the twentieth century as told by the ghost of Banning Jainlight. After a disturbing family secret is unearthed, Jainlight throws his father out of a window and burns down the Pennsylvania ranch where he grew up. He escapes to Vienna where he is commissioned to write pornography for a single customer identified as "Client X," which alters the trajectory of World War II. Eventually Jainlight is accompanied by an aged and senile Adolf Hitler back to America, where both men pursue the same lover. Tours of the Black Clock is a story in which history and the laws of space and time are unforgettably transformed ER -