Book
Tiny nightmares : very short tales of horror
Call Number
- FICTION TINY (CEN)
Publication Information
New York : Catapult, [2020]
Physical Description
x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Summary
In this playful, spine-tingling collection, leading literary and horror writers spin unforgettably chilling tales in only a few pages. Tiny Nightmares brings to life broken-hearted vampires, Uber-taking serial killers, mind-reading witches, and monsters of all imaging, as well as stories that tackle the horrors of our modern world from global warming and racism to social media addiction and online radicalization. Writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Kevin Brockmeier, and Rion Amilcar Scott expand our understanding of horror fiction with inventive and blood-curdling new tales. We suggest reading with the hall light on and the bedroom door open just a crack. -- Jacket flap.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- Guess / Rearview / Grimalkin / Doggy-dog world / Twenty first-century vetala / We've been in enough places to know / Lifeline / Jane death theory / The blue room / Unbeknownst / Lone / Pipeworks / The owner / The resplendence of disappearing / The wheat woman / Harold / Candy Boii / The unhaunting / The marriage variations / The family dinner / Afterlives / The story and the seed / Fingers / Carbon footprint / We came here for fun / The barrow wight / Katy bars the door / Pincer and tongue / The mask, the ride, the bag / Cedar Grove Rose / #Mothermayhem / Leg / Veins, like a system / Caravan / Downpour / Human milk for babies / Pictures of heaven / Gabriel Metsu, man writing a letter, c. 1664-66 / Instrument of the ancestors / Joy, and other poisons / Visiting hours / Parakeets