Uneven, but the stories that hit, really hit. Evenson has a knack for depicting ruthless obsession. His character's curiosity and subliminal desire for something else, coupled with their growing worry that the world around them is irrevocably changing, creates some delightfully macabre and frightening scenarios. Of course, there is more going on here than fright alone. Most of these stories resolve around a theme of coupling and uncoupling— apocalypse and rebirth. A world where only one thing is certain, and that is that there is something out to get you, but there is also probably something out there watching you, perhaps with disinterest, but nonetheless capable of saving you. That being said, the less said about the crime fictions and the cheap trigger warning story, the better. Seductively nihilistic.