Dragged Into Darkness

People spend their entire lives staving off the dark--but no matter the measures taken, black paths and shadowy pits lurk in the unlikeliest of places, waiting to pull the unwary into the depths of despair.These eleven tales offer a morbid sampling of the many forms and fashions of terror--from the subtle prickling of neck hairs at the kiss of a ghostly breeze to the raw-throated screams and feverish clawing of a desperate fight for survival.Witness eleven people torn from their ordinary lives and cast into twisted realities that test their sanity, faith, and very will to live...A pilot must land a crippled aircraft on an impossible runway...A doctor feels far too much sympathy for his deformed patients...A schoolgirl's secret contract could cost her mother's soul...A woman whose pack-rat obsessions hide the obscene...For these and seven others, the darkness comes from within and without, subtle, deadly...and relentless.