Doug Skinner has contributed to The Fortean Times, Cabinet, Fate, Weirdo, Nickelodeon, and other periodicals. In addition to his books of stories, comics, music, his translations of Alphonse Allais, Charles Cros, and Alfred Jarry, he has also written many scores for dance and theater, most conspicuously for Bill Irwin's The Regard of Flight, which toured for decades. TV and movie appearances include Ed, Crocodile Dundee II, several of George Kuchar's videos, and a smattering of commercials.
""Music From Elsewhere unfolds as an enjoyable, wide-ranging catalogue of the weird. Within, we meet curious figures such as Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a linguist who spent two chilly winters out in the field trying to compile a lexicon of crow language, and Rosemary Brown, a pianist medium who supposedly channelled new compositions by dead composers, from Debussy to Bach to Liszt."" —Louis Pattison, The Wire