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In the morning, Bram finds the bones of a murdered child. At noon, the murdered child begs for his help. And by nightfall, they have killed a man together and set off into the afterlife, where nothing is what it was, and death is only the beginning of punishment. An eerie story about the nature of death and the self, Midnight Picnic inhabits an American landscape made strange and unfamiliar.

Nick Antosca's The Girlfriend Game is a tumble through the looking glass into a vortex of violence and desire. The 12 stories in the newest collection by the Shirley Jackson Award-winning author are brutal, urgent and unforgettable. In "Predator Bait", a decoy in a sex-sting news show questions her job and the man who shares her bed. An undependable son watches his mother become a creature he hardly recognizes in "Amphibian". A young man plots the death of his girlfriend's killer in "Winter Was Hard".

"Pícnic a la luz de la luna" es una escalofriante reflexión sobre la muerte. Un hombre atropella sin querer a un perro muy querido en su pueblo. Sin embargo, dicho perro desaparece en el bosque. Al día siguiente, una persona surge de entre los árboles y le entrega lo que parecen ser los huesos de un niño. Poco a poco, este hecho y sus consecuencias arrastrarán a nuestro protagonista a un viaje al más allá empedrado de locura, soledad y muerte.

"Valores familiares" es una refrescante y estimulante antología de relatos adscritos al subgénero del bizarro, de lo más atrevido y vanguardista que se está haciendo en estos momento en el panorama fantástico español contemporáneo.