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Fatality and pleasure. Freud's Todestrieb, his statement that "sex drive has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfils the duty by diverting that instinct to a great scope outwards.... The instinct is then called the detrimental instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to electricity." Few writers have spun testimonies of Thanatos and Eros as skillfully and powerfully as Livia Llewellyn. In his advantages to this volume, Laird Barron state governments, "Scant difference is present between lovely pleasure and pain." An orphan young lady with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of an cult worshipping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent women into their trunks to provide as wombs. A suburban housewife stressed by her present encounters the sixteen year-old young lady she ached to touch in her dreams. These ten testimonies promise to enjoy a listener's sensibilities, their worries and desires.