num_pages: 45
description: Explore the intersection of love, loss and horror in these 14 bittersweet tales from author Dan Hilliard.  In “My Dark Box,” a girl waits in a haunted house prop for her yearly vampiric visitor. A father prepares his daughter for life alone in the wasteland in “Make the First Swing Count.” A boy and his dog find happiness – if not cleanliness – forever in “Rex.”  Featuring “The Sands,” a Lovecraftian body horror trip to the shore; “Live Action,” a neo-noir look at never letting go; and “Human Mercy,” a machine’s misguided attempt to care for her hapless human.
title: Bittersweet: 14 Macabre Tales of Love and Loss