Wilson, F. Paul

Collects short stories from American author F. Paul Wilson, presented chronologically by when the stories were written, and covers 1990 through 2005, and includes "When He Was Fab," "The November Game," "Interlude at Duane's," and more.

In a world where genetically altered chimpanzees called "sims"--capable of speech and similar to humans--are increasingly being used for manual labor, marketed worldwide by a secretive company that owns the creature's genome, a lawyer attempts to create a sim union.

With vampires in control of Europe, the Far East, and major cities in North and South America, Joe, a disgraced priest, decides to hide out and wait for the end, but he is shaken out of his stupor when his niece enlists him, along with a vampire killer and a rabbi, in a plan to fortify an abandoned church and defy the invaders.

During World War II an SS officer is sent to a small castle in the Transylvanian alps to find out what is killing a garrison of German troops.

Jack gets help from a group of reclusive teens from the Jersey Pine Barrens when Weezy confides in him that the quarterback of the football team Carson Toliver attacked her on a date and he decides to seek revenge after he hears Carson lying about what happened and students begin to call her "Easy Weezy.".

Jack's five-year-old neighbor goes missing shortly after he had seen him riding near the Pine Barrens, and when a man emerges from the woods, claiming to have been chased by something all night, Jack wonders if the fifteen-foot-tall pyramid, the circus outside of town, or other mysteries could be responsible for the strange occurrences.

Teenaged Jack, later to be known as Repairman Jack, begins to uncover some unsuspected talents in himself after he and his friends, the clever, imaginative Weezy and her brother Eddie, discover a corpse deep in the mysterious Pine Barrens near their New Jersey town.

Jack's five-year-old neighbor goes missing shortly after he had seen him riding near the Pine Barrens, and when a man emerges from the woods, claiming to have been chased by something all night, Jack wonders if the fifteen-foot-tall pyramid, the circus outside of town, or other mysteries could be responsible for the strange occurrences.

Teenaged Jack, later to be known as Repairman Jack, begins to uncover some unsuspected talents in himself after he and his friends, the clever, imaginative Weezy and her brother Eddie, discover a corpse deep in the mysterious Pine Barrens near their New Jersey town.