Prayers to Broken Stones — Dan Simmons

Dark, disturbing, inventive, provocative: these are the qualities that have made Dan Simmons an award-winning master of brilliantly speculative science fiction and nightmarish horror. Now the author of acclaimed novels such as Hyperion, Phases of Gravity, and Carrion Comfort distills his unique vision into thirteen incredible tales.

A woman returns from the dead with disastrous results for the family who loves her....

An old-fashioned barbershop is the site of a medieval ritual of bloody terror....

During a post-apocalyptic Christmas celebration a messenger from the South brings tidings of great horror....