This new collection of 25 stories, including two appearing here for the first time, collects the best of Steve Rasnic Tem's dark fiction published since his landmark Centipede tome Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors. A number have appeared in various Year’s Best volumes. All represent the high quality of Tem’s prose and the wide range of his approaches to the horror genre.

In The Night Doctor And Other Tales, you will encounter the most haunting figures ever to cross Tem’s imagination: a man obsessed with his own breath and the breathing he hears that is not his own; a husband waiting for his wife as new bodies appear at the bottom of his yard; a weekend fisherman and the unseen man sharing his fishing hut; a loyal husband dealing with the latest changes in his wife’s physical appearance; a strange widower in his house by the sea; a devoted mother trying to protect her son from the nightmares of the past; a son returning to a dreaded summer vacation spot; a grandfather protecting his grandchildren from a legacy of dark transformations; and, in the title story, an elderly man awaits the visit of a mysterious family physician.

Stories included in this collection:

Breathing

Apartment B

Red Rabbit

The Hanged Man

The Fishing Hut

A Sudden Event

Paula Breaks

Lost in the Garden of Earthly Delights

Blattidae Wine

Half-Light

Mister Ainsley

The Long Fade into Evening

Domestic Magic

The Secret Laws of the Universe

The Man in the Rose Bushes

The Night Doctor

The Enemy Within

Stick Men

Too Many Ghosts

When You're Not Looking

Between the Pilings

The Erased

The Wake

The Weight Lost

The Monster Makers