- Softcover
- Publisher: Coffee House Press
- Publication Date: 2019
- ISBN: 9781566895484
Author is the recipient of 3 O. Henry Prizes and has been a finalist for the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award
A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient's room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to objectivity, is immune to the distortions of human perception. Here, self-deception is a means of justifying our most inhuman impulses―whether we know it or not.