A Hollywood hookup becomes a nightmare for a woman who discovers that the predators in the hills seem to include one very hungry tiger...
The last people on Earth look for final distractions in a once-great city being consumed by desert wastelands...
A barfly pauses by an elaborate sand castle and finds herself attacked by armored defenders...
A man suggests to his new love that it's time for them to share their worst secrets, only to hear that hers is a little harder to swallow...
How the human race will spend their last amounts of time on this planet...
All this and more in nine memorable stories from one of today's most unpredictable writers.
Beyond the reach of human range...
a drop of hell...a touch of strange.
A silent leviathan deals daily death to the inhabitants of a typical American city...
A man sees visions of his next incarnation as a crustacean...
A lovelorn junk collector seeks a time traveler's assistance in a matter of the heart...
A strange visitor from another planet, with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, is found by people less promising than a pair of kindly Kansan farmers...
...take a taste of the latest from an award-winning writer of science fiction, fantasy and horror.