Nightmare Seasons — Charles L. Grant

"Grant is one of the young generation of authors who have given us a new golden age of horror fiction. Having grown up on the classics of the genre, they now challenge the old masters with fantasies no less shocking or shivery, but enhanced with new subtlety and depths of characterization...

In this book, keyed to the seasons, Grant gives us...face to skull confrontation with Death,
variously personified as a man/serpent, eliminating its romantic rivals, a little girl who gives her mother's admirers violence and lightning, a faceless motorcycle gang, and a shadow in a black raincoat... .some of Grant's best work yet."...
Publishers Weekly