In "The Net," a girl and her mother arrive at their secluded cabin on
a frozen lake to find their fishing net has been attacked, a massive
hole ripped through the middle. After the net has been mended and the
night's catch eaten, the daughter sits awake playing with a bit of
leftover netting string. When she was a girl, her grandmother taught her
to make string figures--just as her mother had taught her--a game played
by Inuit for generations, but a game not to be taken lightly . . . as
the daughter plays late into the night, and the mother sleeps, other
monstrous forces are soon awakened from beneath the frozen lake.
In "Before Dawn" a young boy runs out onto the tundra to play with his
new friend by his side, venturing far beyond his mother's rule that he
not stray past the inuksuk on the horizon. The boy's friend beckons him
farther and farther, and the farther they get from home, the more the
friend seems to change . . . until he is no longer human at all.
Horrified, the boy listens to the creature's proposition: return home
before dawn, or be lost forever to the other side . . .
Complemented by haunting illustrations from Toma Feizo Gas, The Other
Ones is a fresh take on modern horror by an exciting new Inuit voice.