In his debut collection of horror stories, short fiction writer Michael Botur, recognized in his native New Zealand as "one of the most original story writers of his generation," offers twelve terrifying and bizarre tales that take us to the dark extremes of human imagination. A woman trapped in a coal cellar discovers that in order to live, part of her needs to die. A teen prankster's vicious joke against her tutor brings revenge served cold. Cutting class turns terrifying for two high school introverts. A powerful-yet-paranoid publisher turns a young man's magazine internship into a nightmare. And more . . .