Haunting, varied, and superbly written, Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales is a collection of stories that are immersed in the Gothic tradition while told in a modern and inventive way.    Knitting together the ordinary, the extraordinary, and the supernatural, Dog Boy is a boldly imagined literary work by a masterful new storyteller.

seeing Emmott torn apart like that could have made any man stop dead in his tracks.  But I ran.  I ran faster than those hounds gaining speed and strength over their dog boy.

It was a nightmare that followed me from place to place, like an old bed cap one pulls out of a drawer when settling down for the night.  On the eve of the wedding I awoke, fretful, in our room at the hotel, my sister sleeping

There are all manner of unknowable things, even if they are only the lonely fairy spells

and ghouls of childhood…

At the end of the first World War, a group of friends gather at a former Robber Baron estate on Eastern Long Island, only to learn the house itself holds a monstrous secret.

In present-day Vermont, a woman is tormented by a choice that has shocking, and haunting, repercussions.  

A Parisian cemetery in the mid-20th century, is home to the ghosts of two centuries of poets, artists, and composers, the specters of a homeless woman’s past, and the jolting reality of the modern world. 

In a Montana prison in 1988, a new dog training program goes awry with horrifying results