A beautifully crafted devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and
author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Eight stories of
literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love these are
tales of grief obsession control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw poetic
prose. In these narratives a woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant
niece on-line posts chronicle a cancer diagnosis a couple in the park with their small child
encounter a stranger with horrific consequences a toxic relationship reaches a terrifying
resolution... Originally published under the title The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark
Tales this is a much-praised collection of deeply unsettling painfully dark tales.
