Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders -- Clive Barker

<p><strong>Want to see something weird? Embrace the odd. Satisfy your curiosity. Surrender to wonder.</strong><br /> <br /> From Crystal Lake Publishing and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated co-editor of the smash hit <em>Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories </em>comes <em>Behold Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders</em>.<br /> <br /> Sixteen stories and two poems take you <strong>into the spaces between the ordinary</strong>--and the imaginations of some of <strong>today's masters of dark and thrilling fiction.</strong></p> <ul> <li>A travel writer learns the <strong>terrible secrets</strong> at a hotel that's not at all as it seems.</li> <li>A disfigured woman and her daughter explore methods of <strong>weaponizing beauty.</strong></li> <li>An amateur beekeeper acquires an object that shows her the true<br /> <strong>danger of the hive-mind.</strong></li> <li>Drifters ride the rails seeking <strong>something wondrous</strong> that could change their fates forever.</li> <li>A <strong>strange creature</strong> that holds our very existence in its hands shapes the lives of two lovers to touching and <strong>devastating effect.</strong></li> <li>A young man helps his grandfather--<strong>and something much more monstrous</strong>--atone for bargains made during wartime.</li> <li>And much, much more...</li> </ul> <p><br /> Featuring Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Morton, Brian Kirk, Hal Bodner, Stephanie M. Wytovich, John Langan, Erinn L. Kemper, John F.D.