![]() ![]() ![]() ""Inside the Cackle Factory"" explains, chillingly, what happens to good television shows and why we never see them. In ""The Dead Cop,"" a confused man and his wife try hazily to cope with sorrow and urban violence. ![]() In ""The Detailer,"" a happy soul discovers the depths of human depravity while cleaning a car. In one story, ""When They Gave Us Memory,"" an actor, caught in the perfection of his role, discovers the importance of memory. In sparse, subtle prose, Etchison (The Dark Country, etc.) spins these tales efficiently, surrealisticallyDand concludes them the moment just before things get truly frightening. HThis collection of a dozen short stories explores the disturbingDand usually urban, Southern CalifornianDterrain of what really scares us: not serial killers and vampires, but loss of identity, the inability to cope with loss, the haunting turns life can take, loneliness, manipulation, the thin line between sanity and whatever lies beyond. ![]()
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