In this darkly-comic retelling of the Prodigal Son parable, Jesus talks of a man who must overcome strange horrors in order to convince his family he is real.
Black Country - Joel Lane"e;'Black Country' is one of a sequence of weird crime stories set in the West Midlands that I've been working on for years,"e; says Joel Lane.
Lovecraft's first story to mention Miskatonic University, and one of the first depictions of zombies as scientifically reanimated corpses, with animalistic and uncontrollable temperament.
YOU WILL HEAR THE LOCUST SING is a stunning story about a boy who wakes up one morning to find himself a human-sized insect, and about the troubles this causes.
Bierce was considered a master of pure English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style.