The dark beyond the candle's glow-where the spoiled children go... This collection brings together, for the first time in print, three novella-length tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: In SARCOPHAGUS, nuclear safety specialist Victoria Cox confronts corporate irresponsibility, pagan myth, and nuclear nightmares, in the shadows of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. In THE INNSMOUTH SYNDROME, epidemiologist Carla Edwards investigates teen suicides in the infamous Massachusetts town. In ASHES, architect Patricia Foss unearths a secret history of murder and heresy on the North York Moors. As science and certainty give way to depravity and madness, each must face the dark and dreadful truth: Humanity's tenure is finite, its destiny cursed, and death not always an escape.