From the dark imagination of J Thomas Fussell comes ten tales of horror and science fiction inspired by everyday idioms. Gruesome murders, grotesque horrors, precocious children, and more terror, crime, and pain than you can shake a cat at fill the pages of this disturbing collection that contemplates original interpretations of idioms we all know and use.

Madness seeps through the pages, aliens menace the Earth, and threats both monstrous and all too real confound and thrill. Fussell delights in taking the ordinary and imbuing it with wit, darkness, and gore. These stories drag the reader in, reimagining the very ubiquity of ten idioms so readily used by English speakers.

Idioms in the Dark takes the ordinary and makes it spectacular.

Idioms:
A Bird in Hand is Worth Two in the Bush
Look Before You Leap
Knock on Wood
A Riddle Wrapped in an Enigma
An Ounce of Prevention
You Catch More Flies with Honey
Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire
Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth
In the Land of the Blind
To Shed This Mortal Coil