In 2016 Bram Stoker Award winner John Palisano's first collection, All That Withers, the stories range from Lovecraftian musings to terrifying explorations of the inhuman condition, with Palisano creating vivid images of desperate people engaged in ordeals which could happen to many of us … how they respond is the difference between their survival and oblivion.

The stories include several Bram Stoker Award-nominated tales, as well as the 2016 Stoker winner for Short Fiction, "Happy Joe's Rest Stop". The complete listing of included stories:

Happy Joe’s Rest Stop

Splinterette

The Geminis

Available Light

Long Walk Home

My Darkness Travels on Sunshine

The Haven

To the Stars That Fooled You

Mother You Can Watch

Outlaws of Hill County

Welcome to the Jungle

Wings for Wheels

Secret Sea

Eternal Valley

The Curious Banks of the Wabash River

The Tennatrick

Vampiro

X is for Xyx

Sunset Beach

I Know This World

Forever

Gaia Ungaia

Perrollo’s Ladder