Celestial Inventories

Among the transforming events in these twenty-two genre-bending stories: an office worker and his wife fade into a literal invisibility; a photographer discovers the unexpected in the faces of dead children; a girl moves onto a strange street when she fails to return from trick-or-treating; an artist devotes his career to contracting diseases; a plague of head explosions becomes a new form of terrorism; a couple's aging dismantles reality; and a seemingly pointless life finds final expression in bits of folded paper.
Steve Rasnic Tem's other works include Deadfall Hotel, Onion Songs, Ugly Behavior, and The Man on the Ceiling. Celestial Inventories may be the World Fantasy Award-winning author's finest collection to date. Stories included in this collection:The World RecalledThe Disease ArtistHalloween StreetWhen We Moved OnThe Woodcarver's SonInvisibleHead ExplosionsChain ReactionThe Secret FleshOrigami BirdIn These Final Days of SalesLittle PoucetThe Bereavement PhotographerFirestormThe Mouse's Bedtime StoryLast DragonThe Monster in the FieldThe High ChairDinosaurGiant KillersThe Company You KeepCelestial Inventory