A quick run before dinner can lead to a sinister nightmare. A whole city finds itself trapped in black hills that irreversibly change everything living. A highway exit takes you to Wuirond—an alternate reality hostile to humans. And other, unimaginably frightening dead spaces lurk much closer: in an elevator stuck between two floors, in a crack in a wall, in an ordinary forest. Here you find monsters you’ve never seen; assembling a nightstand can turn into a real body horror; and folklore traditions intertwine with cosmic horror and brand-new fears that surround us every day. These are monstrous worlds by Luigi Musolino, whose unusualness deserves the kind of creativity Thomas Ligotti is known for. With their naturalistic strangeness and bizarre details, they can go head-to-head with Clive Barker’s creations. An alluring darkness that will no longer let go of anyone who falls under its power.