Old Devil Moon

“[Christopher] Fowler repeatedly challenges the reader to redraw the boundaries between innocence and malevolence, rationality and paranoia. His strength lies in the way he unveils the darker side of the ordinary.” — Guardian

A geologist trapped in a town without water is lured into a desperate escape plan. A boy plans a murder in an eerie funfair. A cop witnesses an inexplicable plague of madness. A teenager learns a deadly trick with his cell phone.

Christopher Fowler’s tenth collection of uniquely disturbing short stories contains the blackest humor and the darkest fears.

Contents:

• Foreword: The Sinister Life
• The Threads
• The Lady Downstairs
• The Luxury of Harm
• Cupped Hands
• The Night Museum
• Starless
• Take It All Out, Put It All Back
• The Twilight Express
• Exclusion Zone
• Identity Crisis
• Red Torch
• Turbo-Satan
• The Uninvited
• The Spider Kiss
• Heredity
• Let's Have Some Fun
• Forcibly Bewitched
• All Packed
• Old Friends
• Unnatural Selection
• Invulnerable
• That's Undertainment!
• Afterword: Q&A with Christopher Fowler