Pills: 18 Short Stories

If Clive Barker remade Tales from the Crypt with Roald Dahl's twisty nastiness, you'd get this filthy, funny, flesh-crawling collection of London nightmares.A murder suspect tries to convince a detective that a burrowing, red-eyed insect committed the crime.An overworked data analyst stays late with an obsolete printer that starts typing murder advice.A drug-fueled hookup leaves a man with a corpse in the bed... and a text from the woman he watched die.Two dental professionals use anesthesia to burgle their patients' homes... until they target a sweet old woman who knows exactly how to deal with trespassers.In Pills, Jack Binding gathers eighteen bleak, blackly comic horror stories from the pubs, offices, flats, clubs, and dead-end streets of London and beyond. Pop one at a time or read the lot. Either way, they'll get into your system.