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"The Ones That Got Away" collects five unsettling tales by Stephen Graham Jones. The stories range from a boy’s summer romance turned violent, a girl’s woodland companion who follows into the city, a father disturbed by a phantom voice on his baby monitor, a woman discovering the true nature of a shipwreck, to a brother confronting a night’s sacrifice. Jones’s evocative prose explores the edges of fear and reality across varied American backdrops, from prison corridors to Western outposts, offering a chilling look at the mind’s dark corners.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: Stephen Graham Jones
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