Nothing in Stitches and Other Stories is what it seems, leaving the reader to speculate on the origin of its horror—to root out those subtle connections and, ultimately, stitch each tale together on their own. Stitches and Other Stories was designed to make the reader an active participant. In the end, you decide the genesis of the horror. From a family stranded by an unnatural force on their Montana farm in “Two Miles as the Crow Flies,” to “Stitches,” the story of a young boy terrorized by his dead grandmother. Meet a temperamental little girl from a New York City slum who possesses a deadly talent in “The Wishman and the Worm.” In “The Ovid,” something has come home to roost in a less-than-quaint seaside town. Sit back and let Stitches and Other Stories guide you through a frightful landscape while you read deep into the night.