This collection of fifteen stories straddles the border between the
territory of ordinary anxiety and that of existential nightmare. These
tales of dread and darkness do not feature the traditional demons that
haunt country houses or pop up from unopened graves, but rather
characters who inhabit the familiar scenes of life. These are tales of
ordinary people, and this makes them all the more disquieting, and their
horrors more sharply edged, precisely because they are set in modern,
everyday reality.