num_pages: 432
description: A collection of four chilling novels ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative Joe HillSnapshot is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by The Phoenician a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories snap by snap.A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud a Prosperos island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in Aloft.On a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder Colorado the clouds open up in a downpour of nailssplinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. Rain explores this escalating apocalyptic event as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world.In Loaded a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights his story begins to unravel taking his sanity with it. When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning.
language: English
title: Strange Weather: Four Short Stories
publisher: William Morrow