Signs and Portents Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro A collection of ten outstanding short stories includes suspenseful tales of horror, hauntings, the macabre, and the undead Yarbro is pretty good on middles but weak on beginnings, and her endings are practically nonexistent--as in the best entry here, a non-sf novel fragment: set in Canada, it concerns a dispute over an Indian burial ground wher... more »e evidence of an old murder turns up. Elsewhere, an insurance executive receives a premature obituary notice that subsequently comes true; a spurned young girl turns to witchcraft to gain revenge on her fickle, callous lover; a computerized apartment eats its occupant's ex-lovers; a sailor engulfed by a mysterious fog finds a scary Someone busy altering reality.« less