Seven erudite, charming and brutal tales. A long lost brother asks a dark and desperate favour. Forbidden love threatens the happiness of a Victorian family, and their loving ghost. Justinian sits with his cat watching snow fall. Poor cat. Harry was dead, but how did he die? "I'm tied naked and there are rats here." Howard and his wife argue over the cooling body of their son. Mikey likes the hunt for love, unaware of the what is watching him. Nicholas Vince is known for playing the Chattering Cenobite in Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II. He also played the crescent moon faced Kinski in Barker's Nightbreed. This volume contains six new stories, plus 'The Beast in Beauty', originally published in Skeleton Crew magazine. Parental discretion is advised.