Something's Gotta Kill You

Greg Sisco's first collection of short stories includes 18 dark tales ranging from scary to satirical and from hopeful to heartbreaking, but always from the darkest corridors of the human heart.

Here you'll find a haunted film in an old-timey movie house ("Summers with Annie"), a quaint Christmas village guarding a morbid secret ("The Morbs"), a brutal crime in an otherworldly hotel ("The 4th Floor"), smugly intellectual parasites possessing a college campus ("The Pest Nest"), a chef who treats bad reviews as personal affronts ("Everyone's a Critic"), and a society governed by an artificial being ("The God App"), as well as a dozen other sinister stories.

From spirits and monsters to real-world terrors, Something's Gotta Kill You pokes and prods at the subject of mortality with many styles and tones, but always circles back to one idea: We are here. For now. And that will have to do.

"An engrossing exploration of different genres. Haunting, poignant, and, also, pretty often hilarious. Sisco's work cannot be classified as any one thing, other than 'must-read.' These tales take surprising turns, but most revelatory are their characters-complicated and all-too-human. Plus, there's a killer hippo!"

-Evan Baughfman, author of Mauls of the Wild and Try Not to Die in a Dark Fairy Tale