While Wilson's insights into the psychology of victim and villain are intriguingly complex, his prose is lean and flexible.
In ""Faces,"" a serial killer's penchant for mutilating faces is a key to her identity. In ""Slasher,"" the bereaved father of a murdered girl confronts the self-destructive potential of his rage when he accepts the help of an enigmatic FBI agent with clues to the killer's whereabouts.
Though its contents range from dark suspense to light fantasy, the 12 stories and two stage and television scripts that make up Wilson's first full-length compilation since Soft and Others (1989) all have a macabre edge honed on the hard experiences of their characters. ""This was the stuff of Twilight Zone,"" frets a bewitched character in the first story in this worthwhile collection, setting the tone for the remaining selections.
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