Fleeing from a perfect crime, four crooks race to the perfect hideout: the crater of an abandoned mine. But Axle fears the crater and the terrible things that happen there. Soon he, his partners in crime, and their pursuer will learn that their arrival at the mine had been foretold long ago, and each of them is a piece of a plan devised by the spirits of the Earth.

Twenty classic and two all-new stories explore three realms in one visionary collection. For three decades, Connolly has defied category, writing across genres to create stories where dreams are reality, the future is now, and a lone madman may be the sanest person in the room.

Axle and Bird are back from the dead. No longer merely human, they must now work to further the oohaate-the spirit path. Whether they will like what they find at the journey's end remains to be seen, but for now, there's no turning back. An explosion at Windslow Mine has set things in motion. The forest is crawling with snakes, driven from their nests by underground fires. And the snakes are not alone. Other forces are emerging, rising from the earth's molten veins, preparing to reclaim a smoldering world. By daybreak, the residents of Windslow, Pennsylvania, will know that the world is...

The final hour has come. Rocks burn. Floods rage. Serpents fly. A storm of fire threatens the world. Amid the chaos, a man lies in a shuttered bedroom. He has the power to save the earth, but first he must retrieve an artifact of dream . . . a horror he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With a single ally standing guard, his spirit searches his past, following clues that may unlock a second chance for the human race. All he needs is time. Enter Samuelle-a woman whose touch can raise the dead, kill the living. Her mission: find the dreamer, deliver the death touch, unleash the final...