Nine scary stories of melancholy horror, from D.G. Valdron. The first collection in a trilogy that also includes There Are No Doors in Dark Places and What Devours Also Hungers. Stories in this volume:**
Fossils: A poet follows a giant monster through the streets of abandoned Tokyo;
Flirtin' Out Back With the Sasquatch Kid: A teenage girl encounters the last bigfoot;
Skin: A necromancer's attack shows a woman discovers that her life is only skin deep;
Life, Love and the Necronomicon, a psychological horror story about the truth behind the Cthulhu mythos;.
Regrets Child: A nurse to a dying woman meets her hungry ghost.
The Dead Quarter: In the style of Clark Ashton Smith, after the Apocalypse, the living and the undead share a disintegrating world;
Tell Me: A hunter finds a child vampire;
Killing Hot: A young man with a secret crosses the country, seeking revenge for his sister;
Anomalous Phenomena...: A holocaust survivor tries to unravel reality, by telling stories to children.