Blue World

"The skeleton was wearing Sarah's pale blue nightgown, and what looked like dried-up pieces of tree bark—skin, he realized, yes...her skin—lay all around, on and between the white bones. The teeth grinned, and from the bed there was the bittersweet odor of a damp graveyard.

"Oh..." he whispered, and he stood staring down at what was left of his wife as his eyes bagan to bulge from their sockets...."

Robert R. McCammon's horror novels include such modern classics of the genre as Baal and Stinger. Blue World is his first short fiction collection, an outstanding showcase of his unique power to shock, terrify and disturb the reader. Containing thirteen varied pieces, some of which have not been previously published, Blue World is modern horror fiction at its compelling best. It demostrates superbly why critics have compared McCammon's work with that of such other giants of terror as Stephen King and Peter Straub.