The angel on the beach quotes T.S. Eliot and doesn't judge. Neither does the unicorn with fire in its eyes, or the man with half a face who waits by the fence. In the title story, a husband caring for his declining wife learns to calmly acknowledge the visions that follow him — because acknowledging them is easier than the alternative.This first collection gathers two decades of Caselberg's short fiction: a stranger who wakes with no memory of who she is or who's watching her; a lonely man whose fixation on the woman across the street tips from longing into something stranger; family secrets that surface decades after they should have died; a swarm of impossible butterflies that means far more than anyone in the city understands. Eighteen stories moving between literary horror, dark fantasy, and quiet, unsettling grief — stories that wander the edges of reality and the darker corners of what it means to be human.
