William F. Nolan's Dark Universe: A Grandmaster of Suspense Collects His Best Stories

William F. Nolan. Stealth Press, $29.95 (496pp) ISBN 978-1-58881-035-9

The 41 stories in William F. Nolan's Dark Universe: A Grandmaster of Suspense Collects His Best Stories, prefaced by the author, represent the best of his 175 total horror, SF and mystery short stories (that's not to mention his dozen novels) completed during the past 50 years. In a story from 1956, the last man on Earth fights the little creatures that have been left to rule; in one from 2001, Nolan takes on school shootings and creepy smalltown cults... with an otherworldly twist.

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