THE TWO SAMS
With this unique collection of stories, Glen Hirshberg breathes new life into an age-old literary tradition.

In the title story, a husband struggles with the grief and confusion of losing two children, and forms an odd bond with the infant spectrals that visit him in the night. The award-winning “Dancing Man” depicts one of the creepiest rites of passage in recent memory when a boy visits his deranged grandfather in the New Mexico desert. “Struwwelpeter” introduces us to a brilliant, treacherous adolescent whose violently reckless tendencies reach a sinister pinnacle as Halloween descends on a rundown, Pacific Northwest fishing village, and in “Mr. Darks’ Carnival,” a professor confronts his own dark places in the form of a haunted house steeped in the folklore of grisly badlands justice.

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