And in Shipwreck Beach, a guilty and tormented young man and his favorite cousin confront their demons in the treacherous surf off the Hawaiian island of Lanai. Struwwelpeter introduces us to a brilliant, treacherous adolescent whose violent tendencies and reckless mischief reach a sinister pinnacle as Halloween descends on a rundown, Pacific Northwest fishing village. Dark's Carnival, a lonely college professor is lured to a mysterious haunted house steeped in the folklore of grisly badlands justice. Dancing Men depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory when a boy visits his reclusive and possibly deranged grandfather in the New Mexico desert. The title story finds a husband struggling with the grief and confusion of losing two unborn children by forming an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. Together, they represent a refreshingly human take on the age-old literary tradition of the ghost story. At once thrilling and moving, these four novellas and one story about people and the memories – and monsters – that haunt them cast a mesmerizing spell. In this deeply unsettling collection, Glen Hirshberg's remarkable ability to evoke the quiet terrors of everyday living renders the supernatural eerily natural.
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