A town where people go missing and inexplicably return as cruel versions of themselves. A not-quite-human mother races against time to build a new body for her ailing daughter. Lovesick ghosts inhabit the body parts of living people in a world where the only other choice is amputation. Obsession. Selfishness. Cruelty. Doppelgängers. In these dark, speculative stories—six reprints and six never before published, including the novelette 'Girls Tied to Trees'—J.A.W. McCarthy explores how far humans and the not-quite-human will go to tame the darkness in their world and within themselves.