Short stories by Dan Chaon
Dan Chaon (born June 11, 1964) is an American writer of fiction and former creative writing professor. He is the author of three short story collections and three novels that have received wide acclaim.
Listing 5 stories.
A young boy grows up believing that he is a detective in an imaginary city, and he quickly grows suspicious of his new neighbor. As he grows older, he ruminates on his imaginary city.
On a visit to his old family farm in the Great Plains, a man recalls his tumultuous relationship with his now-deceased brother. In the process, he must reckon with the continued influence of familial trauma and confront his own ambiguous role in his brother's death.
In an American dystopia, a man who helps rescue and raise children who are born as predators is traveling with a predator child to Salt Lake City in hopes to provide him with a normal life.
A strange and obsessive teenage girl and her shy younger brother enter into a disturbing world of dark magic and unknown forces. The girl, against her brother's warning, becomes fixated on getting a local man to fall in love with her by any means necessary.
When an alcoholic-turned-family man in modern-day Cleveland has sleeping problems due to his son’s night screaming, he is haunted by his other family that he left behind a decade prior. During a nightmare about his old family, he wakes up to an even more grim reality.