Prayers to Broken Stones

From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic vampires, journey into a world of fear and mystery, a chilling twilight zone of the mind.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. . . .Includes the following stories:"The River Styx Runs Upstream""Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams""Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell""Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle""Remembering Siri""Metastasis""The Offering""E-Ticket to 'Namland""Iverson's Pits""Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites""The Death of the Centaur""Two Minutes and Forty-Five Seconds""Carrion Comfort"