There is a lingering heaviness in the air around museums at night. Ghostly voices from another time and place eager to whisper their stories - sad, ironic, horrible, scary or euphoric - into your shivering ears. In this collection of dark fantasy stories and poems, ancient artifacts spin their magic and entice you with their scary, yet tantalising tales. Meet a cannibalistic Amazonian tribe with a sophisticated connection to their environment, a boy obsessed with the violent myths of his ancestors, an abortionist hell-bent on revenge, a bizarre Little Red Riding Hood, corrupt politicians haunted by superstition, a gathering of the Vermin Gods and strange monsters rising from ancient seas.