From the brand new York Times bestselling writer of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning assortment of short fiction.

Imogene is teen, beautiful . and useless, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .

Francis was human being once, but now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .

John is locked in a basement stained using the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings during the night with phone calls from the deceased. . . .

Nolan knows but can never show what really happened in the summertime of ’77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a huge cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .

The past isn’t dead. It is not even past. . . .