Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.

Contents:

• Introduction by Elizabeth Hand
• On Skua Island
• Mr. Gaunt
• Tutorial
• Episode Seven: Last Stand Against the Pack in the Kingdom of Purple Flowers
• Laocöon, or, The Singularity