Castle of Terror

The original blurb on this story was, 'What strange dimension was this where giants, gangsters, Lucretia Borgia, dwarfs and Rip Van Winkle lived at the same time?' and, you know, that really does sum things up here. Oh, wait, it's an adventure resolved with a bowling match. Sorry, I shouldn't have told you a critical plot detail like that. Or maybe I should: the reason to read this one is that it's a tour d'horizon where it comes to strangeness in storytelling. And it's not by Philip K. Dick.