Errantry: Strange Stories

When novelist and short story author Hand (Available Dark; Generation Loss) subtitled this collection "Strange Stories," she gave readers a hint about what to expect. Lord Byron said "what a strange thing man is…" and it is true, everyone is a little strange, life is a little strange. This original, varied, collection of stories is not strictly fantasy, and certainly not horror, for Hand is more subtle than that. The stories are so different from each other it is hard to find a common theme or thread, but whether reading about ordinary people sharing peculiar experiences, people undergoing fantastic transformations, a young woman with supernatural powers, or a pair of witches, each story leaves the reader curious, thinking about what they read, but disquieted, with a lingering, though not necessarily unpleasant, sense of unease.