Attention, suspense fans! In this collection of strange tales you will watch in horror as phosgene gas creeps toward the Arizona boosters who've done something truly shocking at their World War I training camp. You will shop, if you dare, at the weird store of an asthmatic witch who likes to summon dead relatives for her customers. You will commiserate with a hunter so distracted by learning about animal tracks that he loses track of his girlfriend. You will fend off a strange puppeteer, and journey along with a substitute teacher on her disconcerting day spent caring for a violent and abused boy. Did he really describe a murder? Twelve anomalous short stories are specially crafted to jolt you out of the mundane. Proceed with caution!