Outsiders Within

<p><strong>We fear discovery when we should fear what there is to discover.</strong></p><p>Lovecraft and his successors show a world where human civilisation is only a thin veneer over black seas of ignorance. A world where men exalted for their reason uncover logic-defying truths. A world where the marginalised discover uncaring horror on the fringes of a society that rejects them. A world where the bonds between us unravel.</p><p>But what of those who wear their own averageness like a veneer? Neither drawn toward the horror by academic curiosity nor driven their by society but unmoored by a mundane secret.</p><p>A Spanish priest struggling with base desires plots to save a native child from brutal sacrifice.</p><p>A veteran hiding the extent of his mental wounds discovers the true war on terror is very different.</p><p>A delinquent's secret passion for stamp collecting draws him into a dark bargain.</p><p>And nine more tales of overtly normal people coming adrift in an incomprehensible universe.</p>