A review by bmg20
Blue World by Robert R. McCammon

⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Yellowjacket Summer" A mother and her two kids stop at a rural gas station but find bigger problems than the heat.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Makeup" A small-time thief steals a dead horror star's makeup case and quickly learns its contents are more than just makeup.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Doom City" A man who awakens one morning to find a skeleton in bed where his wife had been the night before.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Nightcrawlers" A Vietnam veteran comes seeking shelter from the storm and the nightmares of his past.

⭐⭐⭐ "Pin" The unsettling ravings of a madman.

⭐⭐⭐ "Yellachile's Cage" A young man in prison finds hope in his imagination.

⭐⭐⭐ "I Scream Man" A man suffers from hallucinations beyond his control.

"He'll Come Knocking at Your Door" The devil arrives to trick-or-treat on Halloween to collect his due.

"Chico"

"Night Calls the Green Falcon" A retired cinema superhero takes up his cape again to stalk a real-life prostitute's murderer.

"The Red House"

"Something Passed By" Water becomes combustible, concrete turns to quicksand, people move swiftly toward old age or infancy.

"Blue World" Father John Lancaster battles temptations of the flesh and becomes a better priest as he saves the life of a cocaine-snorting porn queen.