By Ronald B. Reiss
On the Barbary Coast: a tender guy, newly mustered out of the military, reveals himself operating as a cable motor vehicle gripman in Prohibition-era San Francisco. He discovers that darkish forces from the prior are attempting to pull him again to the harmful Barbary Coast of sixty years previous, with lethal results.
Old Bill’s mystery: A lonely previous guy dwelling in a flophouse in San Francisco’s Depression-era skid row has a mysterious mystery, one that comes again after thirty years to say his lifestyles.
The Line: a tender architect in Victorian San Francisco discovers that his allure to a stunning, mysterious stranger has a disturbingly sinister aspect.
The condominium condominium: An aged veteran’s strange mystery, relationship from the South Pacific in WWII, is someway attached to unusual, unexplainable occurrences in a switched over Santa Cruz Victorian.
The Mark: After his aunt passes away in 1928, her favourite nephew returns to San Francisco for her funeral, in basic terms to find a stunning shock in her Russian Hill home.
The crimson Maelstrom: After a tender North seashore beatnik commits suicide, the ability of her final portray develops terrifying proportions.
Unforeseen : A possibly dear challenge arises within the excavation for a brand new high-rise construction in San Francisco’s burgeoning South of industry District. In trying to find an answer, a building undertaking supervisor discovers historical forces with remarkable powers that modify his existence forever.
The devil Killer: With nods to H.P. Lovecraft and Raymond Chandler, this story incorporates a hard-boiled Berkeley psychologist who is helping the police examine a sequence of disappearances in 1954, in simple terms to find a nemesis with powers some distance past the actual world.
Ramona’s Face: a tender hippie dwelling in a 1966 Haight-Ashbury flat discovers an unwelcome roommate: the ghost of a former tenant, on a quest to discover its personal freedom.
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