The walls here are lined with skulls – horns and antlers and clean white bone of beasts killed for display. Late-passing headlights cast shadows and reflections over three men who linger after the doors are locked: two who, with rising voices and growing hostility, dispute the law; the third who, in silence, harbors and attends to his own shadows, his own law… “In the Skull Palace” is just one of the fourteen stories in this collection, tales that range from horror to epic fantasy, from grave robbery to ghosts, from the brightness of second sight to the darkest corners of magic. You’ll see things here you’ve never seen before, hear voices you’ve never heard. You’ll visit places you didn’t know existed. Some could be just next door; for some, there are no maps.