The Book of Days — Steve Rasnic Tem

The authorâ�,��"�s second novel, The Book of Days consists of a short story told each day by a man trying to talk himself back to sanity. A kind of literary sampler quilt, these daily inventions emulate the styles of everything from traditional ghost stories to the works of Oâ�,��"�Henry and James Whitcomb Riley, from westerns to fifties science fiction to boyâ�,��"�s own adventure stories. As a sequence illustrating the narratorâ�,��"�s deep internal struggle, these dark stories take on additional weight, making each one a sharp shock that builds to an electrifying whole.