Jack Ketchum has returned with a brand new collection of short stories, full of horror, which we love and which we expect from the author, whom Stephen King called "one of the best in his field." In these stories, Ketcham depicted the harshest and darkest aspects of human life. These stories are fascinating, masterfully constructed, and very, very convincing. Some of you will get a lump in your throat. Some of them will hurt you. Some of them can be so intense and exhilarating that they leave you no choice but to put them off for a while, take a breath and end up when you have the courage. It’s fiction that isn’t just “entertaining,” it goes far beyond what we expect by reading “horror.” There are no haunted houses, no devils with pitchforks and horns on their heads. The only monsters are the worst kind: humans...