"It's about to get very dark. Bram Stoker Award-winning author Laird Barron returns to the dark and dreadful with his fifth horror collection, which weaves sixteen weird tales into a mosaic of the bloody and the macabre. Bring a flashlight and a book of matches. Where we're going, there's not a speck of light."--Amazon

I. Blood red samaritans.

In a cavern, in a canyon -- Girls without their faces on -- Mobility -- Glorification of Custer Poe --

. II. Wandering stars.

Jōren Falls -- Blood in my mouth -- Nemesis -- Soul of me --

III. Alan Smithee is dead.

Fear sun -- Swift to chase -- Don't make me assume my ultimate form -- American remake of a Japanese ghost story --

IV. Lake Terror.

Strident caller -- Not a speck of light -- Tiptoe -- (You won't be) saved by the ghost of your old dog --

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