Under your mask, there is only decay. In Carson Winter's debut collection of social horror, characters reveal their darkest selves in the face of the insane and inexplicable. A couple finds themselves trading identities in the form of masks. A podcaster follows strange clues to a mystery that may spell his end. A child's world collapses into chaos as its dreamer awakens. Portraits of Decay poses subjects as both transgressor and victim; dreamer and derelict-in eighteen stories of anxiety, desire, and unbearable finality. Featuring an introduction from Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold.