Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales

Haunting varied and superbly written Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales is a collection of stories immersed in the Gothic tradition yet told in a modern and inventive way. At the end of the First World War a group of friends gather at a former Robber Baron estate on Eastern Long Island only to learn the house holds a monstrous secret. In a Montana prison in 1988 a new dog training program goes awry with horrifying results. A Parisian cemetery in the mid-20th century is home to the ghosts of two centuries of poets artists and composers the specters of a homeless woman's past and the jolting reality of the modern world. Knitting together the ordinary the extraordinary and the supernatural Dog Boy and Other Harrowing Tales is a boldly imagined literary work by a masterful new storyteller. At a time when most authors of contemporary literature seem obsessed with humor and shying away from documenting the painful aspects of our existence Erica-Lynn Huberty [has written] a book of stories whose immediate goal is not to entertain or humor us but to liberate us from this desire... -Mohammed Naseehu Ali author of The Prophet of Zongo Street ... a distinctly American investigation of the emotional corners into which people retreat to pass their lives... -Hilary Thayer Hamann author of Anthropology of an American Girl