"The Oxrun books represent a grand, wildly successful experiment in horror, as Charlie effectively explored dread and disquiet in many forms ... many of these stories are classics of the genre, providing readers with fleeting, disturbing but memorable glimpses of what lurks in the shadows ... read and reread this excellent example of Charlie's craft as a way of "holding on" to him, and all the good things he represented. If enough of us do that, the strange but moving music he created will never fade away."—Hank Wagner (from the Introduction)