Description: The author of We Are Strange Creatures, The Keeping of Little Things, and Invasion of the Beekeepers gives us four new novellas and four new short stories. Featuring a quiet study of childhood innocence unaware of its own looming loss (The Bats), a tale of a man whose strange desire to marry his rifle causes his community to face the things they themselves have loved and lost (The Gun Story), an homage to classic Gothic horror (Hammerley), an atmospheric story of paranoia and grandmotherly love (At the Door), a man whose daughter is facing an unnatural illness (The Looming), a study of what we lose when we forget how to love ourselves as well as others (The Widow Story), a short tale of possession told by a demon who discovers its own terror at the prospect of innocence gained (Possession), and an elegant tale of secrets and revenge set in a private library in 1950 (Silverfish).
In these eight tales, Todd Michael Cox shows us worlds where the strangest things might just be the monsters that lie within the human heart.