Apple computers, dementia, fantasy, garbage disposal units, convenience stores, gangrene, fishing, short stories, yard sales, suicide, rest areas, horror, stroke, hitchhiking, headstones, amusement rides, occult, depression, nicotine, chef's knives, frying pans, fiction, Suspense fiction, American horror tales, journalists, hostages, The New York Times, interrogation, communism, insurgency, seizures, autopsy, doctors, paralysis, shrapnel, snakes, impotence, traveling sales personnel, loneliness,