Black Leather Required

David J. Schow's short stories have been regularly selected for over twenty-five volumes of "Year's Best" anthologies across three decades and have won the World Fantasy Award, the ultra-rare Dimension Award from Twilight Zone magazine, plus a 2002 International Horror Guild Award for his collection of Fangoria columns, Wild Hairs. Black Leather Required collects thirteen of Schow's short stories and includes an intro by John Farris. The stories included in this collection are: The Shaft; Sedalia; A Week in the Unlife; Scoop Makes a Swirly; Kamikaze Butterflies; Beggar's Banquet, with Summer Sausage; Pitt Night at the Lewistone Boneyard; Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy; Life Partner; Last Call for the Sons of Shock; Where the Heart Was; Sand Sculpture; Bad Guy Hats