Strange visitors. Unsettling memories. Some doors should stay closed.

In The Uncanny Hour, ordinary people find themselves standing at the edge of something they cannot explain, and discovering that some thresholds are easier to cross than to leave behind.

A man wakes in a hospital room facing the one person he could never expect to meet. A woman receives an impossible visitor on a winter night. Two people rediscover each other during one last summer in Fort Worth. A graveyard-shift waitress is forced to confront what has kept her tied to an ordinary diner for years. A family goes to terrible lengths to protect one of its own. And a routine interview becomes something stranger than either participant is willing to admit.

Across six stories, Harvey Moreno explores the places where the familiar begins to slip: a hospital room, a quiet neighborhood, a summer afternoon, an empty diner, a family home, an office. There are no distant kingdoms here. No grand battlefields. Just ordinary places where something has gone slightly, sometimes terribly, wrong.
Blending speculative fiction, psychological horror, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and contemporary drama, The Uncanny Hour is about memory, guilt, identity, grief, love, second chances, and the stories people tell themselves to keep moving forward.

Some of these encounters are frightening. Some are heartbreaking. A few are even funny. But every one of them begins the same way: reality stops behaving.

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