The suburbs are home to horrors in these 14 short stories by the Michael Van Rooy Award–winning author of A Dry Spell—“each of these stories has fangs” (Craig Davidson, author of Cataract City).
A middle-aged realtor tries to get ahead any way she can. A bad girl pays for cheating with a married man. A wife with a dark past lives in fear of being exposed. The bad acts of a little old lady come home to roost. A young man with no direction finds power behind the wheel of a haunted truck. From behind the pretty drapes of the average suburban home, madness peers out. In these and other stories, ordinary lives intersect with extraordinary terror as Susie Moloney explores the dark and dangerous shadows of suburban tranquility.
“Things Withered will keep you up at night . . . Moloney’s stories are taut, tense roller coasters, and so smart, you’ll go back and ride them again.” —Sarah Langan, author of Audrey’s Door
