They say there are always greener pastures. These horror and dark fantasy stories by Michael Wehunt consider the cost of that promise.

From the round-robin, found-footage nightmare of "October Film Haunt: Under the House" to the jazz-soaked "The Devil Under the Maison Blue," selected for both The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and Year's Best Weird Fiction, these beautifully crafted, emotionally resonant stories speak of the unknown encroaching upon the familiar, the inscrutable power of grief and desire, and the thinness between all our layers. Where nature rubs against small towns, in mountains and woods and bedrooms, here is strangeness seen through a poet's eye.

Contains the following horror and dark fantasy stories:

Of Insects, Angels, and People Too Tired to Go On (Introduction) by Simon Strantzas

Beside Me Singing in the Wilderness

Onanon

Greener Pastures

A Discreet Music

The Devil Under the Maison Blue

October Film Haunt: Under the House

Deducted From Your Share in Paradise

The Inconsolable

Dancers

A Thousand Hundred Years

Bookends

Story Notes from Michael Wehunt