"When my pillow first started talking to me, I ignored it."

This is the very first line of Bentley Little's horror story, "Pillow Talk." Holy CRAP!

And then, unbelievably, things get worse. As if a guy's pillow suddenly talking to him in the night isn't bad enough, what it eventually says is enough to make anyone's marbles retract: "I want you." ( Read more... )

One of my fiction focus critique-mates loaned me The Collection, by Bentley Little (the writer Stephen King called "frightening." Haha.) Just one paragraph into the first story, "The Sanctuary", I whimpered, "Oooh, no ( Read more... )