Here with the Shadows

"The Still, Cold Air" chosen for Paula Guran's Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015!

"Wheatfield with Crows" was long-listed for Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year 2013!

"Far better to choose an absence than to have an absence forced upon you."
— The Slow Fall of Dust in a Quiet Place

These stories by award-winning author Steve Rasnic Tem drag from the darkness ghosts that haunt us all. Between these covers lurk the spectres of grief, loss, and loneliness: a man discovers he is far from alone in his empty home, a forlorn wife is gifted with an unusual child, a contractor contemplates the sad message left by a grieving father, a blind woman discovers a spiritual manifestation at the edge of a forest, a spectral presence appears in a lonesome Colorado wheat field... Here with the Shadows is a volume of supernatural impressions and quiet vacancies, and in each story Tem reminds us that sometimes only a whisper separates us from the eternal.

Contents:

Here with the Shadows
A House by the Ocean
The Cabinet Child
The Still, Cold Air
G is for Ghost
Breaking the Rules
The Slow Fall of Dust in a Quiet Place
Inside William James
Back Among the Shy Trees
Seeing the Woods
Smoke in a Bottle
Est Enim Magnum Chaos
These Days When All is Silver and Bright
Telling
Wheatfield with Crows
Acknowledgements