Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters

From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasymeetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a groupof soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A manplays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into afamily story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in asurreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against agroup of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artistdiscovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.