Hook Man Speaks

"It's been a while since my last activity. I've almost entirely lost the urge. I shut my eyes and try to awaken the memory inside me. The darkness. The moonlit bumpers. Interiors lit by radio dials. Crickets. Branches breaking under my creeping step. Sepulchral organ chords that only I can hear." "Is anybody out there?" "The Hook Man is. He is born from nightmares and wild imagination, from the dark, from the guilt of teenage lovers, from panic. His name is Leonard Gage, and this is his story.". "Exceptionally unusual, corrosively funny and touching, and completely unpredictable, Hook Man Spe…