The award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale presents a collection of short stories that features such protagonists as a widowed writer who is guided by her late husband's voice and a woman whose genetic abnormality causes her to be mistaken for a vampire.

Alphinland -- Revenant -- Dark lady -- Lusus naturae -- The freeze-dried groom -- I dream of Zenia with the bright red teeth -- The dead hand loves you -- Stone mattress -- Torching the dusties.