Meet Leo Krull who encountered his dream girl when she emerged from his television screen; Lester Wilthammer, who, when his wife left him, took an almost unimaginable step; Marcus Garth who made a regrettable deal with a human devil during Kentucky's tobacco wars; a werewolf in full hair and fangs who played "Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. I" along with a symphony orchestra; a boy and girl whose first experience with young love becomes entangled with evil-in short stories and novelettes by Kenneth Tucker, tales fanciful, realistic, humorous, and horrifying.