Peter Straub presents four stories that are offshoots of the fictional universe created in his Blue Rose trilogy. Each of the stories stands alone, but together they shine a revelatory light on the novels that inspired them.
Devolution Z January 2016 (Devolution Z, #6)
by Lyn McConchie, Michael Kellar, and J D Brucker
Three Stories About Ghosts
by Martin Hall, Matthew Marchitto, and Ali Nouraei
Three standalone novellas, telling three chilling ghost stories, by three of the finest new voices in fiction. A full-time medium and part-time cook is recruited by the nightmarish Boneman to hunt down and destroy a monster... Two children of warring houses, in a city-state ruled by the noble houses' long-dead ancestors, fall in love... In a hidden college in America, a man and the shade of his wife seek out the answers behind her death...
Aria and her friends are back to defeat the evil that is killing the spirit seers. With the help of the dead she plans to defeat the dark force once and for all. The ghosts have bloody faces, peeling skin and whisper in the night. Aria dreams of flashlight men and wonders if they are the key to finding the Lifelight. This novel concludes the spirit seers epic battle between good and evil.
A Letter to Doctor Freudstein - Demoni - And Ten Poems
by Michael C Laney