By Al Sarrantonio
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First appeared in Shadows 10. “Richard's Head” copyright © 1991 by Al Sarrantonio. First appeared in Obsessions. “Boxes” copyright © 1983 by Al Sarrantonio. First appeared in Shadows 5. For my Aunt Josephine and Uncle August who many, many Christmases ago gave me those Alfred Hitchcock anthologies and put ideas in my head. CONTENTS Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale Pumpkin Head The Man With Legs The Spook Man Wish Under My Bed The Big House Bogy The Corn Dolly The Electric Fat Boy Snow Garden of Eden The Dust Father Dear Children of Cain Red Eve Pigs Richard's Head Boxes AL SARRANTONIO, SHORT STORY BARON An introduction by Joe R.
Preferably not to the stream where the other bucket goes. If this sounds like I'm running the novel down, I'm not. I love them. But I'm saying this: the novel is not ignored. The short story is. That's the sad truth, brothers and sisters. But it's the truth. So, if you're gonna survive, you got to write novels. But, Al, though a solid novelist, is to my mind, at heart, a short story writer. Sure, his books are entertaining, but there's a unique magic, a special attitude, a personal stylistic attack, that belongs to his shorter fiction; he's one of those handful of writers who actually owns a big patch of the short story real estate.
The Saturday bus was late. They waited at the second stop from the house so Mother or one of her friends wouldn't see them. Willie fingered the piggy bank in his pocket, turning open the tab that would release the money within, then turning it closed again. He stamped his feet in the cold. Nellie stood rigid, her shiny blue ski parka giving her the proportions of a snowman. Her eyes were squeezed to a squint by the hood, which she had tied tight around her Face, and she avoided Willie's eyes. “He's not there,” Willie said in a slow, irritating voice.