About the book: 2019 / It’s swelteringly hot. Overcoming weakness, the crying man slowly wanders, collecting certain objects in a canvas bag. He must be in time. He must collect everything. Otherwise he will simply go crazy. People standing at a distance look impatiently at their watches. However, they will have to wait before he finishes his job... And only after reading the story to the end, you will understand what exactly the man is collecting, and, having understood, you will be horrified. The story was first published in the magazine “Night Cry” in the summer of 1986. Later included in such anthologies as “The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales” (1988), “Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror” (1990), “Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror” (2006), etc., as well as author’s collections R .TO. Matheson's "Scars" (1987) and "Dystopia"» (2000).