There are only three stories in this collection, but they are satisfying. All convey an odd sense of claustrophobia- even though none of them is physically cramped. It’s a feeling of… being smothered by the unseen. Being stalked by the unknown.

The first starts with a woman taking a late afternoon walk through a deserted cemetery and the woods behind it. Even though it’s in the middle of a developed area, it seems to go on a very, very long way- and something is following her.

In the second, in the middle of the night, a father searches for his teenaged daughter in an eerie carnival that has mysteriously popped up next to his house, only to find his past catching up to him.

The third finds a grieving widow facing real horrors in her house; horrors that her friend thinks are grief induced. They aren’t.

A quick read, but worthwhile. Four stars. ( )