The beautiful and the bizarre Something watches from the corner of the room, peeking through a crack, existing within an impossible space-what does it want? The ghost of a lover returns at the end of a lifetime, carrying a dark secret-what will she say? A woman struggling with identity finds herself in the arms of a dangerous woman with a mysterious curse-what will she find? The beautiful and the bizarre exist side by side in this collection of fantastic and strange tales by prolific short story author, Marlena Frank .
From dark fantasy stories of sharp-toothed mermaids and bewitched sorceresses to horror stories with ferocious bird beasts and golden-eyed monsters that live in the peripheral of human existence, these stories bring to life the creatures that haunt the nightmare world.
From heart-rending to heart-pounding, these tales will linger long after reading them.