Growing Things and Other Stories

A chilling collection that blurs the lines of psychological suspense, supernatural horror, and literary fiction, from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and the acclaimed A Head Full of Ghosts. “One of the best collections of the 21st century.”—Stephen King Featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things and Other Stories is an exciting and disquieting glimpse into Paul Tremblay’s fantastically fertile imagination. In “The Teacher,” a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story, a student is forced to watch a disturbing video that will haunt and torment her and her classmates’ lives. Four men rob a pawnshop at gunpoint only to vanish, one by one, as they speed away from the crime scene in “The Getaway.” In “Swim Wants to Know If It’s as Bad as Swim Thinks,” a meth addict kidnaps her daughter from her estranged mother as their town is terrorized by a giant monster . . . or not. A young woman revisits her pretty ch