Behind You

Behind You is the latest collection from Ralph Robert Moore, two-time nominee for Best Story of the year by the British Fantasy Society (2013 and 2016). 18 stories and novelettes. 400 pages, 110,000 words. What crawls after midnight on elbows and knees into hospital emergency rooms? Who hides in the woods waiting for hikers who get lost? How could a 90-year old woman get pregnant? What do you do when your girlfriend grows multiple noses and ears? Is a bird really a bird if it doesn't have any feathers or wings or head? Is there a ghost in your best friend's attic? Do dolls get cancer? Can sharks attack someone on a cobblestone street? Is it wise to have an affair with your dental hygienist? What should you do when you suddenly discover you are male, and have a penis? How do priests protect Latino boys from a young girl who likes to put her pet tarantula inside her mouth? Why are you so drawn to a red-haired computer nerd who is indifferent to your beauty? How does a middle-aged couple appearing together in Italo-Spanish-German low budget horror films maintain their relationship when the wife is now being cast in movies as a witch, while the husband still has sex scenes with actresses half his age? When your toilet tells you that you need to get a screening colonoscopy, can your toilet be trusted, especially when your life is being filmed every day by a reality TV crew? How dangerous, and in other situations quite useful, are bananas? How many versions of you and the love of your life exist? Is the world just one island, and endless ocean? What are you hiding, where are you hiding it, and are you willing to submit to a rectal exam? "Moore's work is consistently fascinating, original and devastating. His characters speak to you from whatever hell they inhabit, with clear, unambiguous voices." - Trevor Denyer