A father and son’s train ride is interrupted by a sort of cosmic justice that traps a car full of travelers until they come to terms with their wrongs.
Author: Michael Hartford
“Haunted Inside” by Gabino Iglesias
A man is chased from house to house and city to city by a malevolent force until he makes a terrible bargain with it.
“Peripheral Vision” by Richard Thomas
A man who has always been kind to insects discovers to his horror that the kindness offered by Earth’s monstrous insect-like invaders is anything but.
“Roses in the Attic” by Cynthia Pelao
A girl who has grown up locked in an attic escapes and must face whether it is she or her mother who imprisoned her who is the real monster.
“Don’t Open the Cellar Door” by Jo Kaplan
A girl is haunted by her mother’s abusive boyfriend, who may be a putrefying corpse beneath the floorboards or a malicious ghost.
“Dungeon Punchinello” by Josh Malerman
On the tenth anniversary of their captivity in a sadistic torturer’s dungeon, two men face their starkly different responses to the experience.
“Mooncake” by Lee Murray
A woman goes to clean out her grandmother’s house hoping to find mementos of her dead mother, but finds that her grandmother was harboring something very different than she expected.
“The Things We Did, Were All For Real” by John F.D. Taff
A psychiatrist visits a phone booth in the middle of the desert and finds his life and his mind unraveling.
“Still Life With Bones” by Andy Davidson
Two friends return home for their high school reunion, where they’re faced by classmates who have been more successful and by an open grave that may help to reset the level.
“What’s Missing?” by Zoje Stage
A couple with a seemingly perfect but boring life are snapped out of their routine by a mysterious monster that continues to keep them delightfully on edge even after its defeat.