The Words

Max Hallford’s trademark blend of dark humor and subtle creepiness are on full display in this collection of three weird tales. In “Moments Like These,” a man is sentenced to house arrest—in the house he grew up in. In “Carma,” a man who slashes the tires of those who have wronged him discovers that his own tires have been slashed. And in “The Words,” two small-time thieves break into an apartment whose inhabitants will change them forever.