Bad Glass / Richard E. Gropp / 411 pages / Bram Stoker Award

Dean Walker had seen something inexplicable.  It has been overwhelming and terrifying, yes, but that was what [he] had come here to find, that was why [he] ditched out on [his] final semester and broke a government quarantine.  To capture those images, to capture Spokane."  "Whatever's happening here, it's not the real world.  We all just have to do what we do and hope there's no judgment in the end...  There's some previously unknown agent at work on our minds - something synthetic, maybe, or some naturally occurring ergot, and what we're seeing, what we're experiencing, it's all just the ravings of a city gone mad."  This book is populated by intelligent wolves, larger than life spiders who travel in packs, humans who meld into buildings...  Erie, frightening, thought-provoking, open-ended.