by Alan Rodgers
First published 2000
A boy who should be dead walks back into the world of the living, carrying secrets from beyond the grave. Alan Rodgers crafts horror that transforms under examination, revealing tragedy where readers expect terror and beauty where they anticipate revulsion. This collection gathers Rodgers' finest short fiction from the 1990s, including his Bram Stoker Award winning novelet about resurrection and its consequences. Each story shifts perspective on familiar fears, showing how death, loss, and the supernatural become sources of unexpected grace. The horror remains genuine and unsettling, but Rodgers illuminates it from angles that expose deeper truths about human suffering and redemption. Characters face monsters both literal and metaphorical, discovering that survival sometimes requires embracing what frightens them most.
Genres: short-stories, literary-fiction, horror, supernatural
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: monsters, survival
Period: 1990s
139 pages · Paperback · Wildside Pr