Among the transforming events in these twenty-two genre-bending stories: an office worker and his wife fade into a literal invisibility; a photographer discovers the unexpected in the faces of dead children; a girl moves onto a strange street when she fails to return from trick-or-treating; an artist devotes his career to contracting diseases; a plague of head explosions becomes a new form of terrorism; a couple's aging dismantles reality; and a seemingly pointless life finds final expression in bits of folded paper.

Steve Rasnic Tem's other works include Deadfall Hotel, Onion Songs, Ugly Behavior, and The Man on the Ceiling. Celestial Inventories may be the World Fantasy Award-winning author's finest collection to date.

Stories included in this collection:

The World Recalled

The Disease Artist

Halloween Street

When We Moved On

The Woodcarver’s Son

Invisible

Head Explosions

Chain Reaction

The Secret Flesh

Origami Bird

In These Final Days of Sales

Little Poucet

The Bereavement Photographer

Firestorm

The Mouse’s Bedtime Story

Last Dragon

The Monster in the Field

The High Chair

Dinosaur

Giant Killers

The Company You Keep

Celestial Inventory