Christopher Slatsky

From the author of Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales comes this devastating collection of fifteen stories and essays. A father's desperate search for his missing child leads to a cosmic haunted realm. A woman returns to her childhood home to find a past preserved in a semblance of life. A young man and his canine companion find themselves in the heart of an occult government exercise deep within a Pacific Northwest forest. An elderly man is subject to mysterious experiments as he descends into dementia. And, in the title novella, a forensic anthropologist is called to the site of the mass suicide of an anti-natalist cult intent on communicating with Nature.

An annual anthology of strange and darksome tales, which this year profiles the work of 21 contemporary scribes: Michael Griffin, Kristi DeMeester, Christopher Slatsky, J. T. Glover, Eric J. Guignard, Malcolm Devlin, Gwendolyn Kiste, Ralph Robert Moore, Christopher Ropes, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jason A. Wyckoff, Gordon White, Nina Shepardson, Kurt Fawver, Rowley Amato, Charles Wilkinson, H. V. Chao, Daniel Mills, Rebecca J. Allred, Matthew M. Bartlett, Jos Cruz." A very promising anthology." -Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year"An annual highlight of the genre." -Anthony Watson, Dark Musings"Weirdness with truth at its heart." -Des Lewis, Real-Time Reviews