Welcome, come in. Make yourself comfortable. I invite you to take a journey through these pages as they temporarily draw back the gauze veil that separates us from what crawls around in the dark of night, as well as that which brushes your sleeve as it passes by, unnoticed, on a crowded sidewalk in broad daylight. Glimpse quickly, lest any one of the myriad of evils takes notice. Such happenstance could lead to, let's say, unpleasantness? The tales within represent the tiniest fraction of the evils present all around us. Before you go further, a warning: what once is known cannot be unknown. It's time. Come quickly, if you dare. Turn the page. Allow me to call your attention to what lies between the devil and the darkness.