From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy
meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant
accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what
is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late
father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A
student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman
pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist
discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.
Contents:
- Introduction
by
Elizabeth Hand
- On Skua Island
- Mr. Gaunt
- Tutorial
- Episode Seven:
Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of Purple Flowers
- Laocöon, or,
The Singularity