by K. H. Vaughan
 
In these haunting and deeply human stories, ordinary people attempt to live, love, and endure within worlds shaped by horror. Bodies change. Memories falter. Reality slips quietly out of place. Yet life continues, awkwardly and stubbornly, even when no one is equipped to understand what is happening to them.
 
This Is the Table Where We Wash Our Dead begins in familiar territory: grounded narratives of grief, estrangement, and fragile relationships shadowed by unease. As the collection unfolds, the strange grows undeniable. The supernatural presses closer, identities fracture, and the boundary between the psychological and the impossible dissolves. By the final stories, readers enter a surreal landscape where metaphor and reality become indistinguishable, and survival depends not on defeating horror but on learning how to exist alongside it.