Nine stories by David A. Riley, ranging from the 1970s to the present day, each of them illustrated by award winning fantasy artist Jim Pitts. The stories were first published in The Year's Best Horror, Fantasy Tales, World of Horror, Gruesome Grotesques, Dark Discoveries, The Lovecraft eZine, The Spectrum Book of Horror Stories, and Death, published by Playboy Paperbacks.The stories are: Three Eyed Jack; The Fragile Mask on his Face; Terror on the Moors, The Shade of Apollyon' Writer's Cramp; Fish Eye; Boat Trip; Prickly; and After Nightfall.