The Dissolution of Small Worlds

Eerie and unnerving events are welcome reads for horror and weird fiction aficionados, and Kurt Fawver's new collection a group of work-study students grow obsessed with a particular, otherworldly room at the university library; a monster's mother wants her to assume a traditional life; and a mysterious calling haunts an elderly man at a nursing home; strange Halloween traditions draw a writer to a remote town. Contains the Shirley Jackson Award-winning story “The Convexity of Our Youth.”