Hunter's Moon & Other American Gothic Tales

Six short stories make up this collection of American gothic horror and dark fantasy. Each one puts ordinary people in the path of something they cannot shake: guilt, fate or the supernatural.

One story follows a man whose troubled past refuses to stay buried. In another, a train comes back from Hell for one last run. A third centres on a mirror that shows the horrors of another age. The settings are haunted American places.

The book is a short-story collection by a single author, Kevin J. Anderson, and it moves between horror and dark fantasy. The tone runs from the eerie to the macabre to the quietly disturbing.

Reading it is a slow tightening rather than a series of jolts. The stories build dread and rely little on cheap shocks, so the collection suits a reader who wants atmosphere and unease in compact doses, one story at a sitting.