John R. Little has been publishing his unique brand of short stories for almost 30 years. Little Things is a retrospective of his career, containing his best work. The stories in this collection will make you feel a sense of wonder. Some will shock you, make you sad, bring laughter, scare you, and they will sear into your memory. The author is the winner of the Bram Stoker award and the Black Quill award for his book Miranda.

John R. Little is blessed with both amazing talent and a fantastic imagination. Always a treat to read. If you miss him, you’re missing something good. — Brian Keene, Bram Stoker-winning author of A Gathering of Crows.

John Little is one of those writers who the rest of us envy—he’s a visionary, with personal obsessions (time, love, even cruelty) that define his work while continually refreshing it. His stories are disturbing, uplifting, thought-provoking, exciting, melancholy, horrifying, and sweet... all at once. John’s one of the great magicians of modern genre literature, and we’re lucky to share this timeframe with him. — Lisa Morton, Bram Stoker-winning author of The Lucid Dreaming

Table of Contents
Introduction by Mort Castle
Volunteers Needed
Tommy’s Christmas
Growing Up
3:26 a.m.
Those Little Cameras!
In the Boys’ Clubhouse
Ever After
Welcome to Inferno
Climbing Mount Turnpike
The Jameson House
The Thief of Time
Accordion Season
The Oasis
Cruel Eyes
The Slow Haunting
Following Marla
Sammy
George’s Head
Flies
My Little Jillian
The Wishing Stones
Placeholders
Story Notes