This brilliant, yet disturbing, collection of eight original stories from the unrivaled investigator of human flaws tests the bonds between damaged individuals, showing just how full - and how devoid - of humanity we can be.

Cherie loves being the naughtiest kitten until she meets a group of rowdy animals who show her that being naughty is not always that nice.

In dramatic, tightly focused narratives charged with tension, menace, and the shock of the unexpected, Where Is Here? examines a world in which ordinary life is electrified by the potential for sudden change. Domestic violence, fear of abandonment and betrayal, and the obsession with loss shadow the characters that inhabit these startling, intriguing stories. With the precision and intensity that are the hallmarks of her remarkable talent, Joyce Carol...

Eleven-year-old Josie and her mother come to live off the charity of an aunt in upstate New York, where Josie falls victim to the perverted attentions of her older cousin, Jared, Jr.

Connie is a 15-year-od girl with two things on her mind, boys and how she looks, and she meets a man during the summer. Flirting with him may be fun, but could have dangerous -- and frightening -- consequences.

When single mother Teena's attackers are set free on a legal technicality, detective John Dromoor decides to exact revenge in her name.

Gothic fiction by more than 40 known and unknown writers. They range from William Sansom's A Woman Seldom Found, on an encounter in Rome between a man and a woman, to Paul Bowle's Allal, on an Arab boy who switches bodies with a snake