"The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands": Another tale of the uncanny told at that peculiar men's club in New York (see "The Breathing Method" in Different Seasons), about a young man with an aversion to touching anyone with his hands.Adapted as an episode of Tales from the Darkside. "Word Processor of the Gods": A middle-aged writer receives a gift from his recently deceased young nephew: a word processor built from scratch which turns out to be good for much more than writing."The Raft": Four college students decide to take an end-of-summer swim at a remote lake, and meet the lake's hungriest denizen."Paranoid: A Chant": A first-person narrative poem details the narrator's darkest obsessions and deepest fears."The Wedding Gig": A Prohibition-era jazz combo is hired to play at the wedding of a small-time gangster's sister events at the wedding take a shocking turn.His son Ricky, however, is especially curious.
"The Jaunt": While Mark Oates and his family are waiting to be teleported ("Jaunted") to Mars, he tells them the story of how the Jaunting process was discovered, eschewing the Jaunt's existential horrors and the fate of anyone who's ever tried Jaunting while awake and aware.Todd's Shortcut": An aged handyman relates the story of a vanished, lead-footed housewife who was obsessed with saving distance and time, and finding shortcuts "through the middle of things." "Cain Rose Up": A college student goes on a Charles Whitman-esque shooting spree." The Monkey": A cymbal-banging monkey toy causes the deaths of a boy's loved ones the boy finds it again as a man, long after he thought he had gotten rid of it forever.
"Here There Be Tygers": A boy's trip to the school bathroom becomes terrifying when he meets an unexpected (and inexplicable) feline visitor.Adapted into a 2007 film directed by Frank Darabont ( The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile). " The Mist": After a violent thunderstorm, a supermarket in the town of Bridgton, Maine, is enveloped in a thick, acrid-smelling mist that hides hideous, otherworldly creatures.
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