After the People Lights Have Gone Off

Summary

Winner, Best Collection of the Year, This Is Horror

Nominated, Best Collection of the Year, Bram Stoker Awards

Nominated, Best Collection of the Year, Shirley Jackson Awards

The 15 stories in After the People Lights Have Gone Off, by Stephen Graham Jones, explore the horrors and fears of the supernatural and the everyday. Included are two original stories, several rarities and out-of-print narratives, as well as a few "best of the year" inclusions.

In "Thirteen", horrors lurk behind the flickering images on the big screen. "Welcome to the Reptile House" reveals the secrets that hide in our flesh. In "The Black Sleeve of Destiny", a single sweatshirt leads to unexpectedly dark adventures. And the title story, "After the People Lights Have Gone Off", is anything but your typical haunted-house story.

With an introduction by Edgar Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale, After the People Lights Have Gone Off gets under your skin and stays there.

Table of contents:

• Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale


• "Thirteen"


• "Brushdogs"


• "Welcome to the Reptile House"


• "This Is Love"


• "The Spindly Man"


• "The Black Sleeve of Destiny"


• "The Spider Box"


• "Snow Monsters"


• "Doc’s Story"


• "The Dead Are Not"


• "Xebico"


• "Second Chances"


• "After the People Lights Have Gone Off"


• "Uncle"


• "Solve for X"