Sean M. Price’s Signs of the Fall: A Collection of Storiesis a dark and compelling collection of stories centered on loneliness, repression, lust, guilt, and psychological collapse, all rooted in lives built around denial. Though the stories range across horror, speculative fiction, military drama, satire, and religious fiction, nearly all of them are tied together by Salem, Virginia, the abandoned Water’s Church, and recurring characters haunted by isolation and unfulfilled desire. The collection repeatedly asks what happens when people attempt to repress fundamental emotional truths beneath ideology, fantasy, religion, social performance, or digital escape.
