A dark, dark story collection

Growing up, Samantha Hunt’s mother kept a saying by Pascal on their kitchen fridge: On mourra seul—-everyone will die alone. That may seem downright macabre for a place most people pin cheery magnets and family photos, but it helps inform where her honest, haunted characters are coming from in her first collection of stories, The Dark Dark. In it, siblings witness the gruesome killing of a horse on a walk to Walmart, an inventor falls in love with the robot he created to kill the Una