Here are thirteen harrowing tales by the indisputable mistress of horror, the Edgar Awardwinning author of The Hours Before Dawn (Chattanooga Times Free Press).
Sometimes the things that go bump in the night are our own thoughts coming out to play. Celia Fremlin, an expert on portraying the inner turmoil of everyday people, captures both the psychological and the supernatural in thirteen horror stories, her first collection of short fiction.
Playing The Quiet Game with her boisterous twins drives one young mother to seek refuge in their favorite placeeven if it is a land of make-believe. When her dying former lover makes his last request, its one demand too many for the woman he kept under his thumb in The Betrayal. Jealous of her husbands young love, a middle-aged woman tries to remain For Ever Fair, until she sees the living...