Black Leather Required

David J. Schow's short stories have been regularly selected for over twenty-five volumes of "Year's Best" anthologies across three decades and have won the World Fantasy Award, the ultra-rare Dimension Award from Twilight Zone magazine, plus a 2002 International Horror Guild Award for his collection of Fangoria columns, Wild Hairs. Black Leather Required collects thirteen of Schow's short stories and includes an intro by John Farris. The stories included in this collection are: 


The Shaft 

Sedalia 

A Week in the Unlife 

Scoop Makes a Swirly 

Kamikaze Butterflies 

Beggar's Banquet, with Summer Sausage 

Pitt Night at the Lewistone Boneyard 

Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy 

Life Partner 

Last Call for the Sons of Shock 

Where the Heart Was 

Sand Sculpture 

Bad Guy Hats