Three horror stories born from the depths of nightmare. STILL LIFE WITH EXTINCT ANIMALS – A woman questions her sanity as prehistoric arthropods portrayed in a mysterious painting bought at a Salvation Army store appear to be crossing over into our world one by one. DRUNK ON DREAM – Night after night a man struggling with alcoholism, and haunted by his love for a married woman, wills himself into the Dreamlands of H. P. Lovecraft. HE SHALL PUT ON THE SEMBLANCE OF MAN – Lovecraft’s monstrous god Nyarlathotep arrives on Earth, changing the life of all humans. They call this entity the Messenger – but as protesters demand to know, what exactly is the Message? From Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown.

A trio of stories about fearing for one’s future. ONE MAN’S CEILING – A man gradually loses his family, and even his sense of self, as the house he lives in slowly empties of every tenant, leaving only him. Whoever he is. E – A middle-aged suburban woman who finds it hard to accept the changing times suddenly sees her fears greatly, greatly magnified. YOUR EMERGENCY RESPONSE GUIDE – This helpful guide will give you and your family precise instructions on how to survive the strange event that has forced you to lock yourselves up in your homes. Though, by the time you finish reading it, it may already be too late. From Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown .

Three horror tales of beings from beyond death, time, and space. THE UNFINISHED MAZE – A guilt-ridden father seeks to save the soul of his little girl, whose death he’s responsible for, but in the process he draws the attention of two other people he killed, as well. FEEDING THE DESCENDANTS – A brief and dismaying look into the future of an endangered intelligent race. THE INFLUENCER – Sick and lonely men lust after teenage influencers on social media, and even make use of a living parasite to connect with them, but there is another voyeur looming unseen in the background...a god-like entity that feeds on human sensations. From Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown .

Three stories of shapeshifting private eye Jeremy Stake, in the mean streets of Punktown. IN HIS SIGHTS – Newly returned to the far future city known as Punktown, after having served in the Blue War, Jeremy Stake is haunted by the face of the last enemy he killed...because with his mutant ability to alter his appearance, against his will that face has replaced his own. Unfortunately, another traumatized Blue War veteran mistakes Stake for the enemy itself. THE SEEDS OF CORRUPTION – Years later and now a private investigator, Jeremy Stake is hired by a secretive group of insect-like aliens who seek to stop an obsessed human cultist from unleashing the a god-like entity that could threaten every colonist in Punktown. A MOSAIC – The mysterious alien race called the Egatym has a to gift each and every citizen of the monstrous colony-city Punktown with an equally mysterious gift, promising that once that is done they will make their appearance in Punktown. These gifts affect their recipients in a variety of ways...including mutant private eye Jeremy Stake. From Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown .