Familiar Artifacts

Attention, suspense fans! In this collection of strange tales you will watch in horror as phosgene gas creeps toward the Arizona boosters who've done something truly shocking at their World War I training camp. You will shop, if you dare, at the weird store of an asthmatic witch who likes to summon dead relatives for her customers. You will commiserate with a hunter so distracted by learning about animal tracks that he loses track of his girlfriend. You will fend off a strange puppeteer, and journey along with a substitute teacher on her disconcerting day spent caring for a violent and abused boy. Did he really describe a murder? Twelve anomalous short stories are specially crafted to jolt you out of the mundane. Proceed with caution!