The Fire People: and other tiny tales of terror

A man plagued by a presence in his dreams seeks escape through a late-night visit to a grocery store and encounters a nightmare figure buying strange cuts of meat; a woman emerges from a dressing room at the mall to discover that all the people have been killed; an alien stranded on Earth after a crash wants simply to be killed; and the titular story, a woman who has denied the sexual side of her nature because of her religious beliefs sees something strange and titillating in the flames that are consuming her home. Fourteen super short stories, each under 1,000 words, that take less than 2 minutes to read. Del Stone Jr. has won the International Horror Guild Award for best first novel and owns a share of a Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Award. He is also a finalist for the IHG and British Fantasy awards. His novel "Black Tide," and the story "Crisis Line" in this book, are being made into motion pictures. Travel along a frightening path with this collection of stories, some of which have never seen print.