Teatro Grottesco is a collection that delves into the eerie and the bizarre. It features tormented individuals who meet their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics.

The cycle of narratives includes the title work, introducing readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives. These are selected examples of the forbidding array of persons and places that compose the mesmerizing fiction of Thomas Ligotti.

Amanda and Josh think the old house they have just moved into is weird. Spooky. Possibly haunted. And the town of Dark Falls is pretty strange, too.

But their parents don't believe them. "You'll get used to it," they say. "Go out and make some new friends."

So Amanda and Josh do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what their parents had in mind. Because they want to be friends... Forever.