Front Cover
Core Fiction Hardcover
Novella Collection
2008
Just After Sunset
Scribner
Synopsis
Willa: A man searching for his missing fiancée begins to understand the truth about the travellers waiting in a remote station.
The Gingerbread Girl: A grieving woman retreats to Florida and encounters a predator while running along an isolated road.
Harvey’s Dream: A quiet morning between a married couple turns disturbing when a dream appears connected to real events.
Rest Stop: A writer who avoids conflict must decide whether to intervene when he hears violence at a highway rest area.
Stationary Bike: A man’s exercise routine creates an imagined road whose inhabitants begin to resent his progress.
The Things They Left Behind: A survivor of the September 11 attacks finds objects belonging to dead coworkers appearing in his apartment.
Graduation Afternoon: A young woman attending her wealthy boyfriend’s family gathering witnesses a distant catastrophe.
N.: A psychiatrist’s notes describe a patient obsessed with preventing a breach between worlds.
The Cat from Hell: A hitman accepts an unusual assignment involving a cat blamed for several deaths.
The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates: A widow receives an impossible telephone call from her recently deceased husband.
Mute: A travelling salesman confides his marital troubles to a silent passenger and later questions what the stranger understood.
Ayana: A mysterious child appears during a family medical crisis and leaves behind an unexplained gift.
A Very Tight Place: A feud between neighbours leaves one man trapped in a portable toilet and forced to find a way out.
The Gingerbread Girl: A grieving woman retreats to Florida and encounters a predator while running along an isolated road.
Harvey’s Dream: A quiet morning between a married couple turns disturbing when a dream appears connected to real events.
Rest Stop: A writer who avoids conflict must decide whether to intervene when he hears violence at a highway rest area.
Stationary Bike: A man’s exercise routine creates an imagined road whose inhabitants begin to resent his progress.
The Things They Left Behind: A survivor of the September 11 attacks finds objects belonging to dead coworkers appearing in his apartment.
Graduation Afternoon: A young woman attending her wealthy boyfriend’s family gathering witnesses a distant catastrophe.
N.: A psychiatrist’s notes describe a patient obsessed with preventing a breach between worlds.
The Cat from Hell: A hitman accepts an unusual assignment involving a cat blamed for several deaths.
The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates: A widow receives an impossible telephone call from her recently deceased husband.
Mute: A travelling salesman confides his marital troubles to a silent passenger and later questions what the stranger understood.
Ayana: A mysterious child appears during a family medical crisis and leaves behind an unexplained gift.
A Very Tight Place: A feud between neighbours leaves one man trapped in a portable toilet and forced to find a way out.
Verification Summary
Verified Edition
Photographed copyright page states First Scribner hardcover edition November 2008 and shows the complete first-printing number line. ISBN 978-1-4165-5840-4 is printed in the book. The collection contains thirteen stories, including N., which later received an illustrated standalone edition.