Stories We Tell After Midnight

As a deadly scourge overwhelms the continent, four survivors race to find a last exit out of Australia.

Up in the attic, a bedtime story outlives its storyteller.

A city boy visits his country cousins and stumbles on a terrifying family secret.

From a film set in the Arizona desert, to an overgrown rambling old house in the Florida swamps, to the dusty streets of a small Mexican town, the stories in this volume plunge the reader into the shadows of a world almost forgotten by modern fables of cold science and bright sunlight. They are the brushed over voices who call a warning to those who would comfort themselves in the thought that monsters aren’t real, and those things can’t happen here. Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 2 offers up tales of revenge, of hunger, and of the horror that stalks you just beyond the glow of your cell phone light, but only to those who dare turn the page…

*Table of Contents* Bedtime Tales Nicola Lombardi / trans. J. Weintraub Baby Gray Gregory L. Norris Iron Teeth Jude Reid Victoria Jay Caselberg Family Line Michele Tracy Berger Primary Manifestations Laura E. Price Cameraman Joe Scipione Seek, Don’t Hide Liam Hogan Hey Diddle Diddle Jeff Samson The Cleaning Lady Samantha Bryant Whisper Wood Eddie Generous Last Shot Tim Jeffreys False Confession Joseph Rubas The Curse of the Cucuy Pedro Iniguez The Cut-Mouth Woman and Me Elizabeth Davis (and I feel fine) EJ Sidle Mouths to Feed Solange Hommel Red Rover, Red Rover Larina Warnock Cell Phone Lights T.M. Starnes Lamina Eliza Master The Terrible Teddies Priya Sridhar The Thing All These Relationships Have in Common Is You DeAnna Knippling Field Trip J.L. Knight The Bugs Come Out at Night Mike Sullivan