Portraits of Dread, a Gallery of Decidedly Evil Short Stories

In this collection, MOTHER CALLED TODAY a woman becomes increasingly fearful of her demanding mother's incessant phone calls. She has a horrible secret about her mother, something she is too scared to share with anyone. THE LITTLE MAN ON TOP OF THE WARDROBE Four year old James has always been good about going to bed but recently he's been too scared to go to sleep. There is a little man on top of his wardrobe and it wants his soul.Of course that's just his overactive childhood imagination Isn't it? A GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT we visit a future that isn't too hard to imagine. It's a world where the overweight are social pariahs, where a government controls their eating and shopping and failure to loose weight after three attempts results in the obese being sent to a detention camp. Lynda has just been sent to one such camp and she's about to learn a horrifying government secret which shows they till have one final use for the overweight.