Spin a Black Yarn: Novellas

Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories—and in this spine-chilling collection he spins five twisted tales from the shadows of the human soul: A sister insists to her little brother that by a strange presence. But is it the house that’s haunted—or their childhoods? In a dying man confesses to homicides he never committed, and he reveals long-kept secrets far more sinister than murder. A tourist takes the ultimate trip to outer space in but the real journey is into his own dark past. a trendy married couple buys the latest home gadget only to find themselves trapped by their possessions, their history . . . and each other. And in a wealthy old cretin murders a young man, not knowing the victim was a triplet. The two surviving brothers stage a savage faux-haunting—playing the ghost of their slain brother—with the aim of driving the old murderer mad.