The Book of Days — Steve Rasnic Tem

The authorââ,¬â"¢s second novel, The Book of Days consists of a short story told each day by a man trying to talk himself back to sanity. A kind of literary sampler quilt, these daily inventions emulate the styles of everything from traditional ghost stories to the works of Oââ,¬â"¢Henry and James Whitcomb Riley, from westerns to fifties science fiction to boyââ,¬â"¢s own adventure stories. As a sequence illustrating the narratorââ,¬â"¢s deep internal struggle, these dark stories take on additional weight, making each one a sharp shock that builds to an electrifying whole.