Five short stories of varying length which are all first rate. Schow not only has a way with words but also a highly developed and somewhat macabre
imagination. An earlier collection 'Seeing Red' which I must have read well
over a decade ago was, if I recall correctly, rather gorier and scarier than
this collection. There is a certain calm to these tales even though they are
dealing with the supernatural. I recommend this to anyone who likes the
stories from an earlier time of Vernon Lee and M.R. James: anyone who wants
the written equivalent of Rob Zombie (is that really his name) will be sadly
disappointed.