A special breed and other stories

12 dark stories

12 portraits of an uncertain apocalypse

Once a year, monstrously large balloons float across the sky, hunting down people. Robots hide from human hostility in their elegant homes. Delightful old ladies with ancient magical powers live in sleepy suburbs. A country cottage beautifully draped in twinkling Christmas lights used to be a spaceship, and a young boy on a warpath against aliens gets advice from his dead father's head.