In the addictive new collection, critically-acclaimed, #1 bestselling author Richard Christian Matheson gathers stories of dread, menace and the surreal.

The tales range from prisoners executed with a high-tech twist, to the ravages of empathy, to an uncooperative parrot, to a shapeshifter’s carnal memoirs, to a man who can’t stop talking, to a murderer devoured by ice, to a baby photographer who ruins lives, to a dog that reads minds.

As in his previous collections, SCARS And Other Distinguishing Marks and DYSTOPIA, Matheson’s distilled style is fierce and hypnotic.

There are seventeen illustrations to accompany many of the short stories, all of them originals created by Harry O. Morris specifically for this collection.

The collection includes introductions from John Shirley and Chet Williamson, as well as afterwords from Harry O. Morris and R.C. Matheson.

SHORT STORIES IN THE COLLECTION:

How to Edit

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Transfiguration

Infomercial!

Making Cabinets

Listen

Dead to Me

New Tricks

Bulimia

Venturi

Demise

Sea of Atlas

Kriss Kross Applesauce

The Embalming Machine

Pronoia

Slaves of Nowhere

Last Words

Ground Zero

Evil Twins, Temporary Blindness, Bikers and Amnesia

Bedtime Story

Interrogation

The Talking Man