In the Palace of Repose is a collection of nine such stories, rangingfrom the delightfully fantastic "In the Palace of Repose," to the delicatelyhorrific "One of the Hungry Ones," to the hauntingly literary "The Other Grace."Here indeed are young women, and young men, who have seen too much, and who havebeen abandoned to wrestle alone with the strange, the wonderful, the terrifying.Some triumph, some tragically fail. Most struggle on beyond the boundaries oftheir stories, carrying their wonders and horrors into their lives, into theirworlds — worlds, and lives, startlingly like ourown.