I just finished reading Harlan Ellison's "Strange Wine". A particular stand out for me was "From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet". By all means, don't let the title get your guard down. Want to know why?
D is for Dikh
He is sick. He writes books in the lowest level of a deep labyrinthine grotto. His books are filled with things no one ever wanted to know.
Unsettling things. He became part mushroom many years ago, but even the
small lizards who come and feed off his body never realize he was once a
man. If he were on a desert island he would write his awful stories and
send them out in bottles. But there, deep in the grotto, no one will ever
read a word he has written; written with shards of sharp stone in the blood
of lizards; written on walls that go deep into the earth. But one day they
will need fossil fuels, and they will break through the wall of his grotto,
and they will find the books, written on endless walls. And they will find
the thing with a tormented face, growing in the moist soil of the
underworld.
Simple but unique premise.
Each letter is given somewhere between one line or a short paragraph. The majority of them, I think might do well on a "Masters of Horror" type series along with Croatoan. Something I don't feel like summarizing right now.
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