Ichor Falls

A great collection. Shame it's so hard to find now.
I've loved Straub's work since I was in middle school. I first read this then, and have read it a few dozen times since. I've performed some pieces for school projects, followed Broodhollow and Channel 58 carefully, and I think nothing quite really lives up to the power and pressure of Candle Cove, Curious Little Thing, Promises, and Excerpts from a room at Cedarspring. I think about the Stillwoods all the time, about Maddie, about the Ethylor summer. Genuinely, I think the strongest stuff here is the introductory history before the stories start. I mean, this stuff is gold. 
Are they perfectly written stories, and is this a perfect collection? Of course not. But it's gold all the same.