From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.

Imogene is young, beautiful … and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945… .

Francis was human once, but now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing… .

John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead… .

Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of ‘77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds… .

The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past… .