The Isolationist and Other Stories by V M Harrigan (Author)

Black Metal, Body Horror, Dire Futures and Dopplegangers, Possession, Telepathy and other disturbing scenarios. Seven small bites of Scifi-Horror in a novella-length book with an eye toward late-60s, early-70s New Wave of Science Fiction. Think Dangerous Visions and beat-up copies of Analog and Asimov’s Digest:

A man has his head removed just to avoid dealing with other people.

A time-traveler visits the only survivors of the apocalypse; mysteriously transformed humans living in an abandoned military bunker.

An evil spirit inhabits the cryptic logo of a Black metal album.

A tortured soul is trapped in a house he can't escape from, and a nightmare he can't wake up from.

Something's gone wrong at the lab and Merrill is being duplicated. Versions of himself from different stages of his life keep showing up, crowding him out, destroying his sanity.

The Thaxton Research Institute has found another trans-dimensional portal incident, this time in an American suburb of the 1990s.

And more...