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.
모두가 부러워하는 삶을 살아가는 완벽한 커플인 닉과 에이미. 결혼 5주년 기념일 아침, 에이미가 흔적도 없이 실종된다. 유년시절 어린이 동화 시리즈 어메이징 에이미의 실제 여주인공이었던 유명인사 아내가 사라지자, 세상은 그녀의 실종사건으로 떠들썩해진다. 한편 경찰은 에이미가 결혼기념일 선물로 숨겨뒀던 편지와 함께 곳곳에서 드러나는 단서들로 남편 닉을 유력한 용의자로 지목한다. 미디어들이 살인 용의자 닉의 일거수일투족을 보도하기 시작하고, 시간이 갈수록 세상의 관심이 그에게 더욱 집중되는데...
