A collection of four dark short stories from master storyteller and Edgar and Stoker Nominated Billie Sue Mosiman. Stories short enough to read while on a subway ride, while waiting in a doctor's office, while waiting for dinner to cook in the oven. Dark stories to remind readers of how very close the dark is creeping. DARK REALITY-The world is shifting around him and his brother who died as a soldier in Iraq keeps coming back. Can he keep him? MCMURDO SOUND-In the cold wasteland of the Antarctica, he listens to the southern stories told by his friend, Brian. Brian has a story that is similar to the urban legend about the man with a hook for an arm. Could it be true? SPARKLE-A Tale of the Devil-Frank's going with his girlfriend to a bed and breakfast for the night on a long car trip. Waiting for him is...the Master of Hell. INTERVIEW WITH A PSYCHO-She's gathering tales from the old people to publish in a book about what it was like in the Great Depression. Then she interviews Hank and she hears a story about a serial killer's life. Did she get more than she bargained for?