Amazon.com description: Product Description: A beautiful young Irish immigrant sings her sad song in the dusty halls of an abandoned inn, a marine is finally allowed to make a choice, a crazed old man puts to rest his own ‘Old yeller’, an 8 year old boy’s choice of Mother’s Day gifts is ill-advised, and a disillusioned lover learns the meaning of Poe’s plaintive cry for nepenthe, the balm of Gilead. 12 tales of terror, retribution, and insanity are spiced with a bit of wry humor to slow the racing heart, and 11 poems complete this collection of early works by the author of ‘How to Commit Murder Without Even Trying’.