Infatuated and obsessed with a fitness instructor, Natalie hatches a devious plan to eliminate everyone in the young woman's life so she can have her all to herself.
"She had told [...] that the car belonged to the friend for whom she was waiting. And gradually, [...] that Carol wanted to go to New Mexico." High- smith, "The Price Of Salt" (1952). First published under a pseudonym, Patricia Highsmith's "The Price of Salt" (1952) is recognized as being the first "lesbian pulp" with a happy ending; the novel doesn't conclude with the death or heterosexual marriage of either woman, as was the moral imperative to punish such characters in these texts in the first half of the twentieth century.
Katy is delighted to reconnect with her old high school friend, Gina. But when Gina's boyfriend, Ray, also shows up, it turns out that the surprise reunion wasn't so impromptu after all -- the couple want Katy to help them rob her workplace.
In a world where monsters, ghosts and other dreadful creatures are a reality, nightmares can come true. And they will. An anthology that delves into the paranormal, the bizarre and the downright insane. No place is safe.
