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Kliewer skillfully incorporates classic horror elements like delusions, an isolating storm and the paranormal with an alternative storyline written in Reddit-style posts — a nod to the novel’s origins, which began as a novella he posted on the social media site.

K-Ming Chang’s taut novella “Cecilia” explores the intensity of desire by slinking along the razor-thin line between love and obsession, between the desire to cuddle someone or consume them.

“Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,” the crown jewel of the collection, is a 150-page crime novella about a man dealing with the aftermath of a strange dream and the obsessed detective with arithmomania hellbent on pinning a crime on him.

Published more than 20 years later, Henry James’ novella “In the Cage” offers a more cautionary tale.

The novella ends with the telegraph operator leaving her “dreams and delusions” to “return to reality.”