Among the transforming events in these twenty-two genre-bending stories: an office worker and his wife fade into a literal invisibility; a photographer discovers the unexpected in the faces of dead children; a girl moves onto a strange street when she fails to return from trick-or-treating; an artist devotes his career to contracting diseases; a plague of head explosions becomes a new form of terrorism; a couple's aging dismantles reality; and a seemingly pointless life finds final expression in bits of folded paper.

Steve Rasnic Tem's other works include Deadfall Hotel, Onion Songs, Ugly Behavior, and The Man on the Ceiling. Celestial Inventories may be the World Fantasy Award-winning author's finest collection to date.

Stories included in this collection:

The World Recalled
The Disease Artist
Halloween Street
When We Moved On
The Woodcarver's Son
Invisible
Head Explosions
Chain Reaction
The Secret Flesh
Origami Bird
In These Final Days of Sales
Little Poucet
The Bereavement Photographer
Firestorm
The Mouse's Bedtime Story
Last Dragon
The Monster in the Field
The High Chair
Dinosaur
Giant Killers
The Company You Keep
Celestial Inventory